Word: outposts
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...example, the eight virtual bosses of Popeyes last month orchestrated a restaurant opening in Iceland, designed a new outlet in Honduras and handled a chicken-supply crisis in Fairbanks, Alaska (which is so far from both the Atlanta headquarters and its vendors that it's treated like a foreign outpost...
...feels as though the soul of the place is in jeopardy," says Wes (Scoop) Nisker, a legendary local radio commentator whose smooth voice has been practically synonymous with Bay Area counterculture for 30 years. "Ever since its inception, San Francisco has been a place where adventurers came, the last outpost of the continent, where you could experience a sense of rugged, outlaw freedom. Now it feels like a theme park of itself--the San Francisco Experience...
Eventually, no amount of rocket-jock calm could hide the fact that Mir had become a deathtrap. Once parts of the glinting International Space Station went aloft, it was clear there was no need to keep the old outpost in orbit. So now, more than 15 years after it was launched on what was to have been a three-year flight, Mir will splash into history, its mission finished but its story only beginning to be told...
...died of leukemia in 1996. That's why, for the two decades after he fled the U.S., Rich has been trying to buy his way back to respectability by stroking the interests of the Israelis, Swiss, Spaniards and Americans, cultivating relationships like roses in his garden. From his outpost in the Swiss town of Zug, he wired contributions around the world--to hospitals, opera houses and disaster-relief organizations--and slowly, the fugitive was camouflaged by all the pretty flowers. He donated an estimated $200 million to institutions in Israel and the Jewish diaspora. In 1995, according to a memo...
...launch pad early in the evening of Wednesday, February 7, carrying the newest segment of the International Space Station, a U.S. laboratory module named Destiny. NASA managers, rarely stolid when it comes to shuttle launches, have taken to describing Destiny as a "quantum leap" in the orbiting outpost's mission and capacity. From Cape Canaveral, Brad Liston examines this latest development in the $100 billion science saga...