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This sounds judgmental, but Genelle doesn't mean it that way; she says that only God knows his plan for Rosa's soul. And Genelle knows that if she had died that day, she would not have been ready to meet her maker. But she is frustrated when people say she merely got lucky and those who died were unlucky. "This is not about luck," she says. "This is about God having a plan. And he will reveal it to me one day. I think God will give me a sign...
Luckey argues that aircraft are designed to withstand the minor decompression that might result from bullet holes in the fuselage. According to airplane maker Boeing, even onboard explosions have not caused planes to crash. Luckey says pilots would be physically, psychologically and financially screened before being authorized to pack heat, then trained by the FBI and closely monitored on and off duty. "There isn't a pilot out there who wants to carry a gun," says Luckey. "But a weapon is another piece of emergency equipment...
After 10 years as a globe-trotting sales exec at Cisco Systems, Nuti had been touted by analysts as a potential successor to Cisco CEO John Chambers. But Nuti, 38, recently left the networking giant to become president of Symbol Technologies, the world's largest maker of bar-code scanners, based on Long Island, New York. Nuti likes Symbol's growth potential and will no longer have to commute from his Long Island home to Silicon Valley...
...ideas are taking root worldwide. BASF Corp.'s carpet-fiber unit has developed a recyclable nylon that makes it possible to reconstitute old carpets into new. Swiss semiconductor maker ST Microelectronics has saved more than $60 million by cutting its energy usage and more than $20 million by reducing water consumption below baselines set in 1994--a program initiated after CEO Pasquale Pistorio's son Carmelo questioned his father's environmental stewardship. The company issued a "decalogue"--or 10 commandments--of environmental goals and empowered its divisions to become creative. The responses include using solar power and finding ways...
...General Motors, Bristol-Myers Squibb and British Airways, now release data on their environmental and social performance according to protocols spelled out by the Global Reporting Initiative, a collaboration of nonprofit organizations and companies based in Boston. In the 2001 report by Baxter International, a Deerfield, Ill., medical-products maker, the company detailed how reductions in energy and water use and improved waste disposal and recycling over the past seven years cut costs by $53 million last year. That savings amounted to nearly 10% of its 2001 net income...