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...Born in Monterey, Calif. to Catholic, Italian immigrant parents who owned a restaurant and later a farm - Panetta worked for both businesses growing up. He received his bachelor's degree and law degree from Santa Clara University...
...Served eight terms in Congress, representing the Monterey area. While a Representative, Panetta worked on budgetary matters, environmental causes and civil rights issues. He was known for reaching across the aisle and for being a budget hawk...
...much can be done without building anew, and although support at the executive level is crucial, the impetus for change can come from any member of the staff. At the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Calif., for instance, Joy Colangelo, an occupational therapist, helped launch the "Green Team" about six months ago. The team's first task was to do a "waste audit" in order to tally unnecessary expenditures, says Colangelo. She found that the hospital's heart department was churning out 20 pages of patient-identification labels per patient, but using only...
Consumers also can help save the seas--through the fish they buy. To that end, California's Monterey Bay Aquarium, along with the Blue Ocean Institute and the Environmental Defense Fund, is coming out with pocket guides to sustainable sushi. The groups base their ratings on the health of a wild fish's population (the popular bluefin tuna is restricted), along with the impacts of fish-farming operations. (Fast-growing oysters can be farmed sustainably, but salmon can't.) They also take into account fishing practices: catching bigeye tuna with thousand-hooked longlines can result in the unintended death...
...White House who would apologize to the American people or even to the global community for the horrible financial mess we are now facing - someone who would have the guts to stand up and say, "I am sorry for my mishandling, my misjudgment, my negligence." Wang Zhixue, Monterey Park, Calif...