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From a career standpoint, Donaldson, 68, needs this job like an attack of angina. He's a walking legend on Wall Street and founding dean of Yale University's business school. He's been on Aetna's board since 1977, and insists that he's boss for the long haul: "I want to take a fresh look at this business and not be locked into old thinking...
...vacation and 12 sick days per year; discounted tuition for undergraduate and graduate courses at Harvard, and reimbursements of up to $2,000 per year for job-related courses taken at schools other than Harvard; medical and dental plans; and if you're in it for the long haul, there's a full retirement plan...
When they divvy up the $27 billion intelligence budget each year, it's not the well-known CIA that takes the lion's share. The real haul goes to an obscure agency called the National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and deploys the country's high-tech, supersecret spy satellites. For the billions of dollars it receives, the NRO produces portfolios of invaluable high-resolution pictures (which can indeed read license plates from space). The photos give the U.S. a jump on adversaries as diverse as North Korean missile builders and South American drug lords...
This disconnect can be costly, as the last week has proved. When police finally bust into some suburban home or college dorm somewhere in the world and haul out some terrified teenagers--or former teenagers--in front of a horde of reporters, you can bet we won't be seeing any modern-day John Dillingers. More likely we'll see some gifted, alienated kids--powerless in their real adolescent lives--who couldn't resist the temptation to use technology to make themselves, even briefly, more powerful than they had ever imagined...
...abreast and boast a king-size 46 in. between rows. The industry average is 32 in. for coach and about 38 in. for first class, one reason Legend trumpets itself as providing first-class comfort at coach fares. Why 56 seats? That's the limit for long-haul carriers flying out of Dallas' Love Field, under a 1979 federal law intended to protect the sprawling Dallas/Fort Worth airport, which just happens to be American Airlines' home base...