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DIED. CHARLIE BELL, 44, former chief executive of McDonald's; of colorectal cancer; in Sydney, Australia. Bell, who stepped down in November to fight his illness, spent just seven months on the job after replacing James Cantalupo, who died of an apparent heart attack last April...
...DIED. CHARLIE BELL, 44, former chief executive of McDonald's; of colorectal cancer; in Sydney, Australia. Bell, who stepped down in November to fight his illness, spent just seven months on the job after replacing James Cantalupo, who died suddenly of an apparent heart attack last April. Cantalupo and Bell had been the primary architects of the company's recent revitalization...
...take anything for granted. "We're like a little speedboat circling around an ocean liner, so we have to be more innovative," he says. In the past year, Hain has joined forces with two U.S. institutions--providing its Yves veggie burgers as part of the McVeggie at select McDonald's locations and working with Sesame Street on co-branded Earth's Best products. Earth's Best baby food is seen as a key to the company's success for its ability to draw in mainstream shoppers willing to pay a premium for organic food for their little ones...
...Americans flocked to see Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock's documentary about what happens when you eat nothing but McDonald's food for a month. Now McDonald's is discontinuing its Super Size option...
...sense that life is short and that too much shut-eye just makes it shorter. "During work," he says, "sometimes I feel that there's so much out there I could be doing." That attitude can take obsessive forms. Kaye White, 48, of Oak Park, Ill., markets McDonald's Happy Meals during the day, then sometimes stays awake until 2 a.m. baking cakes for friends. Once, for a stretch of several weeks, she devoted her extra time to drawing elaborate decorations on her children's lunch bags. "I have a weird compulsion to be superwoman," she says...