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...Phil mainly targets the French market; the home page on his office computer is a weather map of France. "If it's raining there, I know not to try to sell watermelons," he says with a smile. "We're not a big operation, but we've learned to master quality...
...billions to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; likewise, the fee for our lunch would go to the Glide Foundation, which helps the poor and homeless. Lunch with Buffett, we figured, would be a good way to give to charity, but it would also be the ultimate capitalist master class - a chance to see up close what makes the Sage of Omaha tick and to learn from his wisdom...
...smartest move Gates could make right now is to get out of the way. (Steve Ballmer should, too; pursuing Yahoo is a pretty good hint that his master plan for the Web is, like Gates's was, to try to buy Microsoft's way into the game.) There are many smart and talented people inside Microsoft who know what to do. (Blow up Vista and abandon its next iteration, Windows 7, and start from scratch, is but one excellent idea...
What does Obama need? The master pol Lyndon B. Johnson once cut to the essence of unity in a divided party when he said he preferred to have his foes inside his tent, um, relieving themselves outward, as opposed to outside pointing...
...unique; his enthusiasm for gardening is not. Twenty-five million U.S. households planted vegetable and fruit gardens in 2007, according to Bruce Butterfield of the National Gardener's Association, and that number is expected to increase by several million this year. The waiting list for the USDA's Master Gardener Program, which involves nearly 90,000 volunteers in all 50 states who educate and assist the public with horticulture projects, is getting longer every year, says Bill Hoffman, National Program Leader for Agriculture Homeland Security. Even urban dwellers are returning to the land; in Austin, Texas, for example, the wait...