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Chocolate bars and ice cream aren't the only products getting makeovers to please the growing carb-avoiding public. The all-American French fry is being retooled to overcome its unwholesome image--and perk up its sagging sales...
...first time I realized that stock options were more than just a nice perk--that they had created a culture of their own, different in unexpected ways from the one in which most of us live--came about a year after I went to work for Microsoft in the mid-1990s. One of the software jockeys I worked with announced he was going to "retire." He had joined the company straight out of college and had been there seven or eight years. He was 30 years old. Why retire? He explained, "Well, as you know, I just got married...
Though he says he racked up nearly every type of frequent flyer perk possible, the travelling grew to be too much to bear. So when Princeton came knocking on his door last year, he jumped at the offer to relocate...
...also required to attend all of the fraternity’s parties and to keep the brothers out of trouble. Garbarino says that the practice of looking out for each other is mutual: after SAE parties, one brother always walks her back to her room in Eliot. A major perk of her role as mom is that she is occasionally the only girl invited to some fraternity events. Before the club night that SAE hosted at the Matrix in Boston, for example, the fraternity held an intimate pre-party for brothers only. Garbarino was the only woman in attendance, resulting...
...bunch of blue-capped kids—some two years removed from puberty, others two seasons shy of prosperity—trot onto the field to a dull roar. Nine-year-olds with baseball mitts perk up, eagerly awaiting the chance to snag a foul ball...