Word: mike
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...take on a blue-collar occupation, what would be your first choice? -Mike Brand, Tallahassee, Fla.It would have to be something creative. I get pretty bored with everything else...
...Actor Mike Randleman has spent the past four years documenting prisoners' last meals on the blog Dead Man Eating, and he says nearly all requests are for comfort food: 80% are for cheeseburgers, steak or fried chicken. "You go back to something that made you feel good at one time," says Randleman. "It always makes my day when someone picks candy. An assorted bag of Jolly Ranchers or a box of Whoppers. It's straight back to youth." For his own last meal, Randleman, who has thought about this a lot, would take a cupcake...
...corporate environmental performance remain frustratingly difficult to find. Carbon neutral may be the reigning Oxford Dictionary term of the year, but too few companies can and do size up their carbon footprints accurately. "You have CEOs making commitments on carbon, but they haven't even measured anything yet," says Mike Wallace, a vice president at Trucost, an environmental-research firm based in London. "How can you be carbon neutral without any numbers...
...Doric columns, price-gouge cafes, scores of niche Italian luxury brands - and almost no customers. Holyfield engaged in several rounds of shadow boxing in a ring erected awkwardly between the silks and crystal. Cameras shuttered away as the sparse Russian crowd ogled the man best known internationally for the Mike Tyson-made chunk that's still missing from the rim of his right ear. After Holyfield came Ibragimov, a champion whose humility bleeds into a bashfulness that sees him shy away from the cameras, even though he wears the belt of a champion...
Even before Kylie Stone first picked up a field hockey stick, she had experienced college sports up close and quite personally. Her father, Mike, has been the head baseball coach at Massachusetts since 1988. During his time there he has led the team to two NCAA appearances and sent 33 players into professional baseball...