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...Ceredigion, Wales, came online, Britain became one of eight nations producing more than 1 billion watts--or a gigawatt--of wind-generated electricity. "We're in an exponential growth phase," says Alison Hill of the British Wind Energy Association. "It has taken us 14 years to get our first gig. It'll take 14 months to get our second...
...cast of a gig like this doesn't need famous faces, mainly because those faces would all be hidden behind the opaque visors of the lunar helmets. But there's no shortage of famous voices. John Travolta, Matt Damon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Scott Glenn can all be heard reading the real moon walkers' historic reflections as the movie moon walkers explore the faux surface. The plum role--NASA nobleman Neil Armstrong--is voiced by Hollywood nobleman Morgan Freeman. Armstrong's characteristically minimalist style suited the actor. "Morgan looked at Armstrong's lines, nodded and said...
When Fiske took over the struggling Bath & Body Works (BBW) retailer 21/2 years ago, he was a career consultant who had never held an operational gig in corporate America. The $2.2 billion company, a division of the Limited Brands, instantly became a real-time laboratory for Fiske's ideas. He set about morphing the shopping-mall staple of down-home goodness and gingham into an upscale yet affordable beauty boutique--a perfect example of a new category of consumer goods that falls somewhere between mass market and prestige. That's why Fiske, a boyish-looking 43-year...
...playing Rolling Stones tunes. "During the course of the afternoon," Mullen remembers, "I saw that some people could play. The Edge could play. Adam just looked great. Big bushy hair, long caftan coat, bass guitar and amp. He talked like he could play, used all the right words, like gig. I thought, this guy must know how to play. Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band...
Still, it's intriguing how many opportunities they are finding to be noticed together. Their co-hosting gig at the movie premiere came at the end of a day they had begun together at a news conference. Last week found McCain and Clinton together again as part of a congressional delegation surveying melting glaciers in Alaska. And there was that brow-raising joint appearance from Baghdad on Meet the Press last winter, in which each declared that the other would make a good President...