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...hobbies.“There are levels of nerdy things you can do,” says Miller sheepishly. “It starts with something like Harry Potter and then it goes up to WoW, and then it goes to trading card games. That’s the peak of what you can do.”But, ever-respectful, Miller realizes that he has just insulted the card traders and hurriedly adds, “I’m sure if I sat down and tried it, it would be fun. But it’s something...
...year and 1,487 fatalities. The situation is exacerbated when emergency vehicles get tangled in backups that can stretch for 100 miles (160 km) at rush hour. The congestion is so bad that the city forbids 1 in 5 cars, depending on license-plate number, from leaving home at peak travel times each day. But the streets are still a mess. "Ambulances often simply can't get through," says Carlos Eid, a doctor with the Brazilian Association of Traffic Medicine...
Chip Conley, the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which operates 40 boutique hotels and other properties, exemplifies San Francisco smarts in Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Conley's company was almost wiped out by the post-9/11 downturn. But the theories of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow provided "mouth-to-mouth resuscitation," says Conley, a Stanford M.B.A. (In miniature: Maslow believed that as their basic needs are met, human beings and companies are able to strive for higher goals.) Despite a few New Age-y concepts like "karmic capitalism" and a tendency...
...families I know are being forced out because they can’t afford [to stay],” he said. “My focus in this election is to affect the peak middle-income families out there...
...Ethiopia and Kenya have had hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their homes. Scores have died since. West Africa has seen its worst floods in years, with 300,000 fleeing the earth-colored waters of northern Ghana. Meanwhile, forecasts by African meteorologists say the rains have yet to peak. October may be the worst month to come in this very wet year...