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...which develops retirement communities and other residences, is building on thousands of acres in northwest Florida and stresses the connectivity of its homes--and not just high-speed Internet but also proximity to transportation, including an airport. Both are essential for people who continue to work, and for a new breed that Jerry Ray, senior vice president of St. Joe, calls "splitters"--people with two full-time residences, one in the South and one elsewhere. St. Joe even donated 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) to a new international airport near Panama City, Fla., which will serve both locals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Your Mother's Retirement Community | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...corporate social responsibility," says Richard Edelman, president and CEO of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide in New York City. "You have to do it." Amadi argues that many American companies confuse social responsibility with philanthropy. Nike long prided itself on writing checks to charities in the Pacific Northwest. But for a global brand, that wasn't enough. When activists attacked the company because of working conditions in its Asian factories, says Amadi, a company that had thought of itself as a "good guy" had to rethink its game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Agenda: How to Talk to Protesters | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...one’s countrymen. It’s a scenario that’s difficult not to romanticize.It’s all much harder when you come from plain-and-simple Canada or, worse, from the American Midwest or Southwest or South or West or Northwest or anywhere but two cities in California and one in Illinois. Take the romance out of your place of origin, and not moving up to the big leagues is hard to justify. “I’m going to work in agricultural reform in Boise” just doesn?...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just Say ‘No’ to NYC? | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...death toll in suicide bombings to 15. But the spate of increasingly violent attacks on targets associated with his regime is only one of the many threats confronting the embattled President Pervez Musharraf. Challenges to his authority from the courtrooms of the capital to the rebellious mountains of the northwest have once again raised the specter of a declaration of martial law in Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm Clouds Gather for Musharraf | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

...Taiwan-based laptop manufacturer Quanta will begin by turning out 44,000 units a week at a recently expanded factory in Changshu, northwest of Shanghai. Negroponte said some 300,000 orders have been booked so far. The goal is to be turning out a million laptops a month by mid-2008. That avalanche, the critics will say, better start rolling soon. But Negroponte doesn't seem to mind the doubters. Four years ago, he ran into Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell computer makers at the World Economic Forum and told him - again - about his concept for making inexpensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Cheap Computers to the World | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

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