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...goal is to make even hardened executives recognize themselves--or, at the very least, their superiors--when he acts like the bigwig who keeps glancing at his watch during a meeting or cuts off a colleague midsentence to answer his cell phone. "It's not just mumbo-jumbo, feel-good diversity training," says Gerald Lord, V.P. of finance and strategy for Campbell Soup's North American division. After sitting through one of Young's three-hour, Dr. Phil--style seminars last month, Lord is convinced that getting his fellow executives to pay attention to microgestures can help improve Campbell...
...right, I was sleep deprived. So what? Still confident that there was nothing wrong with my ability to function at full capacity, I flew to San Francisco, where NASA's Ames Research Center keeps a full-size virtual-motion simulator of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. It's the next best thing to really flying. After a few hours of training and several takeoffs and landings, I had mastered the 747--or so I thought...
...memorial service for Coretta Scott King brought presidents to this mega-church in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. Some 10,000 mourners came to the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, including President George W. Bush and former Presidents Bush, Clinton and Carter. Many watched on jumbo television screens as a dozens of speakers took to the pulpit to sing the praise of King's widow. To attend the ceremony, the President had delayed a New Hampshire trip promoting his new budget. Bush, who is notoriously restless at long events, stuck to the dictum that speakers keep their remarks short. His words didn...
...many visitors, a meal at Hong Kong's Jumbo floating restaurant has proven to be a mild disappointment. Although it's name-checked in many a guidebook?and appears on every other postcard dispatched from the city?the 30-year-old waterborne tourist haunt is locally infamous for its mediocre food and moribund air. But all that has changed with the opening of Top Deck, tel: (852) 2552 3331, a snazzy international restaurant on the Jumbo's uppermost level. Operated by the same team behind the almost-as-iconic Caf? Deco restaurant atop Victoria Peak, the new venue provides...
...many visitors, a meal at Hong Kong's Jumbo floating restaurant has proven to be a mild disappointment. Although it's name-checked in many a guidebook - and appears on every other postcard dispatched Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder from the city - the 30-year-old waterborne tourist...