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With his curly, salt-and-pepper hair and thoughtful demeanor, Chris West looks like just another mid-career professor as he crosses the streets of Oxford University. But West, trained as a zoologist, is more an activist than an academic these days. From his cramped office around the corner from Balliol College, he directs the government's UK Climate Impacts Program, which educates individuals and businesses in Britain about the risks they face from climate change and the ways to cope with...
...courage or stupidity or what," says Janet Reid, 52. The daughter of educators, Reid expected to be one, too, and followed her love of chemistry to a Ph.D. from Howard University. But Procter & Gamble began to pursue her, and after 18 months, she gave in. Under then ceo John Pepper's mentorship, Reid hopped within the consumer-products giant, rising ever higher in title. But after 10 years, she broke off and started Global Lead Management Consulting. She likens her decision to leave P&G to a hermit crab deserting its shell to seek a better one. "I was fueled...
...with clubmaking legend Roger Cleveland. Proprietary software even adjusts for hometown conditions. "We can look at your drive here and tell you that you'll get 14 yards more carry on that same drive in Denver," says Jeff Colton, senior vice president of research and design. Over dinner, participants pepper the staffers with questions about their favorite pros. Most frequent query: Does Sorenstam play with men's clubs? (She hits with a customized set that's more forgiving than...
Catalano said that during the struggle officers used pepper spray to gain compliance from the offender. The suspect is being charged for stealing items from the women’s locker room. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...audience can tell that Baron Cohen’s anti-Semitic jokes are worth more than the little slapstick gags that pepper his routines. Borat in thong underwear may be designed to get a few chuckles, but when an enraged Kazakh crowd yells “Kill the Jew-egg before it hatches!” the laughs are enormous. Unlike the more benign jokes in his routines, Borat’s anti-Semitic ones are designed to provoke...