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During investment banker Herb Allen's annual gathering for media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, last July--when locals were paid $20 an hour just to be available for baby sitting--Coca-Cola CEO Douglas Daft at one point turned for advice to investment legend Warren Buffett, who sits on Coke's board. What would happen, Daft wondered, if Coke suddenly stopped giving Wall Street quarterly earnings estimates? Buffett answered that Coke's shares would be more volatile and some investors would sell but that these were prices worth paying. Daft would forever "be free from that fiction," Buffett said...
...arrest and indictment of a Saudi graduate student in Idaho last week may have been an important first step in busting up the burgeoning links between Islamic extremism and the World Wide Web. Sami Omar al-Hussayen, a Ph.D. candidate in computer security at the University of Idaho, was charged with violating conditions of his student visa by registering and maintaining a dozen militant websites promoting violence against U.S. interests. U.S. officials want to know more about al-Hussayen's work for the sponsor of most of these sites, the radical Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a Michigan-based...
...sales per square foot, Latino grocery stores outperform traditional supermarkets by 25% in L.A. neighborhoods where the two go head to head. Indeed, some of the U.S.-based chains are offering Gigante the sincerest flattery by trying to copy its business model. Last year Albertsons, based in Boise, Idaho, the country's second largest supermarket chain, after Kroger, launched an effort to attract Latinos by revamping three slumping Southern California stores in predominantly Latino areas. The company hung Spanish-English signs over the aisles, expanded produce sections 30%, quadrupled the size of meat counters, piped in Mexican pop music...
...stimuli. His great preoccupation is the stage of fetal development during the first eight weeks of gestation, when the embryo has not yet been differentiated as male or female. As obsessions go, this might not be one you would expect from a former high school football player from Boise, Idaho. But to him this stage represents a time of pure potential. The descent of the testicles in the male fetus is a moment to be regretted. He made peace with his own anatomy sufficiently to father an infant girl last October by Bjork, the Icelandic pop star. That child...
...biggest tax hikes ever. Though he backed off when legislators balked, other Republican Governors are forging ahead. Connecticut's John Rowland, elected as a tax cutter in 1994, began his third term by proposing a 1% income-tax surcharge on millionaires. G.O.P. Governors are also pushing new taxes in Idaho, Arkansas, Ohio and Nevada. The Democrats, meanwhile, are mostly relying on spending cuts to balance the books. California's Gray Davis is one of the few to back a big tax hike, seeking to plug part of the state's $35 billion deficit. But his Democratic counterparts in Wisconsin, Illinois...