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...project," says Jeremy Perks, a director in Beijing for IWNC, a corporate-team-building firm that has worked with Cathay. When those teams break down, Cathay is vulnerable to the same problems facing every other airline. For example, in June a mechanical problem delayed a Cathay flight in San Francisco, forcing 400 passengers to sit on the runway for seven hours and hitting the airline with a rare round of negative publicity...
Comedian Mort Sahl spoke for many now famous performers when he said he was "set free" by Enrico Banducci, the influential impresario of the seminal San Francisco nightclub the hungry i. After buying the cabaret in the early 1950s for $800, Banducci installed a brick-wall backdrop, now standard in comedy clubs, and urged artists to be themselves. In addition to nurturing Sahl, known for his edgy political satire, the flamboyant, beret-clad enthusiast helped launch such performers as Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby and the Kingston Trio. Banducci...
Trotta placed second on the show, taking home $3,000. She sprinted to an early lead, but fizzled out when Price Troche, Jr., of San Francisco State University, piggybacked off of Trotta’s letter choices and dominated the rest of the game, winning $64,800 in cash and prizes...
Reminiscing about her time as a player, Rooney praised the depth of the Harvard program and the completeness of her training as a golfer. “Last year we went to Monterrey and San Francisco and we played Pebble Beach and Cypress Point and the San Francisco Golf Club. I think I’ve already reached the peak of my golf life,” she said...
Cohen's early observations about Ban Zhi Lian may have started out as a hunch, but they may hold up. In 1996, Cohen and Tagliaferri, along with Dr. Debu Tripathy, then a breast cancer specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, co-founded the Complementary and Alternative Medicine program at the university's Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. Over the next several years, the trio amassed enough evidence about the herb's anticancer properties - in lab tests of animals and breast-cancer cells, BZL101 caused apoptosis or cell death, according to Tagliaferri - to get a green light from...