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...avid cyclist and musician, peers up and down the street before peeling off the protective paper and slapping the Toyota's bumper with a sticker that proclaims, "I'm Changing the Climate! Ask Me How!" and gives the website address of Changing the Climate changingtheclimate.com) based in San Francisco. The group has sold 40,000 of the stickers in two years. "We are using ridicule and social embarrassment to change the habits of the American consumer," proclaim founders Charles Dines and Robert Lind at the site. A similar site, I Don't Care About the Air, sells 300 bumper stickers...
Since graduating from HMS in 1964, Schroeder, who works as a professor of Health and Health Care at the University of California, San Francisco, has dedicated most of his professional career to research on tobacco policy and teen smoking and drug...
Schroeder recently returned to San Francisco after serving for twelve years as President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest health philanthropy organization. Under his stewardship, the Johnson Foundation rose to prominence as a leading expert on tobacco control and prevention programs for alcohol and illegal drugs...
Born and raised in San Francisco, Kirschner concentrated in English and American Literature as an undergraduate. His creative-writing thesis, Phantoms: a Novel, won the Hoopes Prize—an annual prize given out for the best senior theses...
...except Seiji Horibuchi, president of San Francisco-based Viz Communications, who observed the popularity of anim? among American kids and decided the country was ready. Two years ago he approached Japanese publishing giant Shueisha about exporting its popular teen-oriented Weekly Shonen Jump (shonen means "boy" in Japanese) series to the U.S. After a year of negotiations, Horibuchi convinced Shueisha's skeptical executives that American kids were an audience waiting to happen. It may have helped that Weekly Shonen Jump's Japanese circulation has declined by half, to about 3.4 million, since the mid-1990s, and the company was looking...