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...placed ads in places that the Democrats didn’t see: health club networks, and metro traffic reports. We believed in a volunteer-based workforce, because people trust their neighbors more than paid workers—and, through common interests like hunting or church or PTA meetings, attracted 1.4 million volunteers, and 7 million e-activists...
...just 10-15%. International carriers?including Thai Airways?have canceled some direct flights to the island. It's now possible to spend an evening dining in one of the island's finest Thai restaurants and have the whole room and staff to yourself. The Phuket Tourist Association (PTA) estimates that in January and February alone?peak season on Thailand's Andaman coast?the drop-off in tourist arrivals will cost the island $500 million, or almost double the property damage inflicted by the tsunami. "It's all gone to hell in a handbasket," says James R. Batt, managing director...
...Overcoming entrenched perceptions won't be easy. After the tsunami came the threat of disease, leading many governments to issue advisories warning against travel to entire countries. While the fear of infectious disease may have eased and advisories been relaxed, surveys among international travelers by the PTA have found fear of illness remains the greatest deterrent to tourism in the region. ("There is absolutely no problem going there," says Harsaran Pandey, World Health Organization's Southeast Asia spokesperson.) Other potential visitors consider it inappropriate to holiday in a place where lives were lost...
...there. Research shows that children do better academically when both parents attend conferences and PTA meetings. A parental no-show sends a message to a child that maybe school isn't such a high priority--or perhaps that the child...
...whites when it comes to investment, planning for retirement and putting money aside for college. The firm also started the Ariel Community Academy, an inner-city Chicago school that teaches elementary school students how to invest. Hobson takes her stump speech-- essentially a crash course in investment strategy--to PTA meetings, union halls and schools, and she is a financial consultant for ABC's Good Morning America. She agitates on corporate and civic boards, from the Chicago Public Library to Princeton University. "Mellody has a deep set of values about what's right and what's wrong," says former Senator...