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...approach toward the U.S. He spent nine months as an intern at the French consulate in Houston and came away with an indelible portrait of America's complexity. "The whole way of life - from your air-conditioned car to your air-conditioned job, then to an air-conditioned burger joint - this is the antithesis of what we want in France." But he noted that Houston, the heart of Bush country, has a Democratic mayor and a large gay population. "A lot of people there were as distraught as Europeans about the war in Lebanon," he says. "And even...
Even as the housing market cools, one segment of it appears to be bucking the trend: garage remodeling. The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University estimates that homeowners spent $2.4 billion on replacing or improving their garages in 2003--more than double the average annual spending over the previous decade. Companies that specialize in this niche, which barely existed a few years ago, say they're expanding exponentially. Garage Envy, the Pasadena, Calif., firm that transformed Cardenas' space, expects 2006 revenues to hit $2.6 million, up from $1.1 million in 2005. GarageTek in Syosset, N.Y., hit $20 million...
...Neanderthals weren't nearly as primitive as many assume, observes Eddy Rubin, director of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, Calif. "They had fire, burial ceremonies, the rudiments of what we would call art. They were advanced--but nothing like what humans have done in the last 10,000 to 15,000 years." We eventually outcompeted them, and the key to how we did so may well lie in our genes. So two years ago, Svante Pääbo, the man who deconstructed the FOXP2 language gene and has done considerable research on ancient...
...Sirota group, enthusiasm is the must-have for success. The Purchase, N.Y., consultancy calls it the foundation of company morale, talent retention, productivity, customer satisfaction and even higher stock prices. The consultants pitch themselves as enthusiasm builders, using methods like creating a "partnership culture" of shared business goals and joint decision making, and job-security policies like making layoffs the last choice, not the first...
...Goodbye”At risk of taking the easy way out, I have to say that the most recent offering from Canada’s Junior Boys’ turns a neat trick: reestablishing and sustaining familiar tonal palette over the course of an entire album while eluding the joint specter of drudgery and repetition.Yet rather than a sprawling masterwork, “So This is Goodbye” is a cohesive album, whose melodic bass lines issue taut rejoinders to lazy keyboard echoes, delicate synth arpeggios, and efficient percussion—complete with judicious handclaps, especially...