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...wouldn't expect a spiritual leader to be able to power-lift 7,000 lbs. with one arm, but charismatic Indian philosopher Sri Chinmoy believed that extreme physical fitness was key to achieving enlightenment and world harmony. A guru with disciples around the globe, he drew attention to his mission by holding "ultramarathon" events that spanned up to 3,100 miles and by lifting trucks, airplanes and people, including Nobel laureates Muhammad Ali and Nelson Mandela...
...laudable mission, but will the shareholders grow fatter from it? "We were born with this health positioning. With the new Danone, I think we can say that 98% of total sales will be functional health and nutrition. It's very different from the competitors," says Riboud, 51, a skier and windsurfer...
...water. Riboud, who took over the business from his famous industrialist father Antoine that year (the family controls less than 0.5% of the shares), decided in 1997 to refocus the company, which began its conglomerate life as a glassmaker called BSN in 1966. "We used to say that the mission of the company was to bring health through food to the maximum number of people," he explains. Thanks to Numico's baby-food and clinical-nutrition divisions, "now we can add to that mission 'from the beginning of your life to the end of your life,'" he says...
...half hours after Alexandra M. Hays ’’09 is given 24 dollars and 24 hours to construct an outfit for FM’s fashion challenge, she is poking through the sea of $1.50 a pound clothing the Garment District. Hays is on a mission to find something “black and silky,” which she plans to transform into a dress with a collage of Drew Faust’s face on the back. She collects items haphazardly, but balks when she realizes that the clothes weigh more than 20 pounds...
...Some key coalition partners threatened to bolt Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's governing coalition, and some religious leaders vowed to mobilize mass protests. But the difficulties that the Israelis will face in even discussing the sharing of Jerusalem - a Palestinian bottom line - were only one factor complicating Rice's mission. In the same week, the Israeli army announced it had seized West Bank land just east of Jerusalem, giving the impression that it intended to restart a controversial plan to massively expand an already sizable Israeli settlement bloc in the West Bank. Naturally, the announcement was taken as a provocation...