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...major structural difference from Survivor is the most telling: the "recruits" conduct grueling reward challenges, not in teams, but as one unit. It's the most literal example of a widespread reality-show theme: that ordinary folk (including a professional balloon sculptor), working together and given motivation, can gut it out mentally and physically--that your real opponent is yourself...
Whether an exchange should be prohibited or not is in many ways an emotional question. But my guess is that most of the emotional gut reaction to it doesn’t come from the idea of letting other people take our toxic waste. It comes from the realization—and a sickening one at that—that there are people on this earth so desperately poor that they would be willing to live amongst our deadly toxic chemicals for what is to us a relative pittance. And that even if we decide not to let them take...
Dell says it did not undertake the cuts lightly. "It's one of the hardest, most gut-wrenching decisions you can make as a leader," Michael Dell told TIME. The layoffs are, he admits, "an admission that we screwed up" by overhiring. If there's a lesson, he says, it's that "when things heat up quite a bit, we should take some pause...
Some minor changes, like those proposed by Kaufman, should be made to keep the Clean Elections law viable. But the basic premise of the regulations is sound, and the legislature should resist any temptation to gut the bill...
...Heinecke doesn't have time for the naysayers. He's a man who thrives on gut instinct and speed. His hobby, after all, is racing cars?he has competed in the Macau Grand Prix and set a speed record driving from Singapore to Bangkok?so he was energized when the Pizza Company shot out of the starting blocks. "We went from zero to 70% market share in our first weekend,'' he says. His new company even set a record for pizza deliveries in a single day. But a weekend skirmish doesn't decide a war. Heinecke contends that Tricon...