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...Dallas Get your marriage off to a flying start: book a hot-air-balloon wedding with Texas firm The Sky's the Limit. Reverend and balloon pilot Jim Whitesell will take you and your loved one up to around 1,000 m, where he conducts the sky-high service. The package costs $591 and usually lasts an hour. Wedding guests can tail behind in extra balloons, or follow the couple's progress from the ground. www.texasballooning.com...
...from his son's science project and slapped on a vacuum-cleaner belt to create "Thumpin' Ralph"--a machine to sharpen old drill bits for reuse. Savings? Over $300,000. "The old mind-set--unions vs. management--it's still there for about 10% of the people," says machinist Jim Messick. "But if we want to survive as unions and as a company, we have to work together...
...Jim Lee, who's taking over the art on Superman, is fresh from a run on best-selling Batman, so he's in touch with his dark side. But he admits it's a challenge. "Batman is a more modern-era type character," Lee says. "He's fueled by vengeance; he's the boogeyman. Superman is the altruistic alien hero that protects us all. It's difficult to make that believable in this day and age." In their first issue, Lee and writer Brian Azzarello have...
...Brits fighting over who gets to ride shotgun. Nick Scheele, 60, is relinquishing his role as COO and getting kicked upstairs as company president, while David Thursfield, 58, head of international operations and global purchasing, is simply getting kicked to the curb, with his retirement effective May 1. Meanwhile, Jim Padilla, 57, the Detroit native in charge of the company's Americas division, is taking the role of COO and much of the credit for Ford's $6 billion swing into profitability over the past two years. Padilla's push for quality helped the firm pull ahead of Volkswagen...
...Jim Meeks I baptized when he was a sophomore in college,” said Gomes, who added that he has tried to reach the wounded soldier but missed a phone call from Meeks yesterday...