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...This is a fairly new concept for me,” Dawson said. “I’ve always stressed being a running back first, and, to be honest, I’ve always kind of resented the guys who didn’t really have that ideology. Running is really important to me, then all the other skills like blocking and catching out of the backfield...
Okay, to be honest, I’m not really nostalgic for the 50s; I’m just drawn to drive-ins for their kitschy aspect—the same reason prep school guys recently took to wearing trucker hats. But when it comes down to an evening of entertainment and five bucks—that’s enough motivation...
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she helms an agency that is the nation's front line of defense against invasions from the world of microbes both natural and, with the threat of bioterrorism, increasingly man-made. A careful, soft-spoken physician, Gerberding first drew attention for her honest, concise handling of the anthrax attacks in 2001. Since getting the top CDC post a year later, she has spearheaded the creation of the Emergency Response Center, a high-tech war room that allows the CDC to link to and share information with scientists from around the world...
...light of the past years' revelations about mutual-fund abuses, Bogle seems remarkably prescient. He likes to say that his greatest accomplishment was "putting the mutual back in mutual funds." As he wrote in his senior thesis at Princeton, a financial enterprise must serve investors "in the most efficient, honest and economical way possible." In his 50-year career he has never wavered from those principles. Bogle's success in making Vanguard an industry giant demonstrates that it is possible to do right by the customer and still do well. --By Eliot Spitzer, attorney general of New York
...explained to him that although he missed the TIME 100, Simon Cowell made it, for being honest enough to tell people they're singing Elton John songs off-key. To this, Farmer responded, "Who's Simon Cowell?" Maybe someone should spend a little less time saving people's lives and a little more time "reading" his PEOPLE...