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...what were once rural areas. The company has more than 500 stores in 34 states yet plans to open 62 new stores this year and 75 in 2006 in such places as Enfield, Conn., and Dundee, Mich., that have proximity to urban areas. Although there's risk in that rapid expansion, CEO Jim Wright says the store growth is a reflection of greater numbers of do-it-yourselfers who want to get back to nature yet still commute to an office. "We are positioned in the path of that growth," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greener Pastures | 5/4/2005 | See Source »

...they have to prove that their products actually work as advertised and be able to deliver inventory in 90 days. The military's push to protect the troops has only gained urgency since the 9/11 attacks precipitated the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "We come to FPED to find rapid solutions to those things that keep us up at night," said Marine Colonel James Lowe, commander of the Quantico base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playdate for the Pentagon | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

There are a number of proposals that Harvard could take advantage of, including the Urban Ring Project, which would extend a rapid-transit bus system around Boston so that riders would not have to go to the center of the city and then travel out on the subway to reach their destinations...

Author: By Joseph M. Tartakoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Crossing Planned | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

Harris S. Band, Harvard’s director of physical planning, said at the meeting that there was a possibility that public rapid transit would be able to connect Allston and the Longwood Medical Area...

Author: By Joseph M. Tartakoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Crossing Planned | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...Caesarea, Israel. Wry, caustic and often chauvinistic?he once responded to a young woman wanting to be a combat pilot by asking, "Have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"?he guided the Israeli air force, a unit he built and commanded from 1958 to 1966, to its rapid, preemptive victory in the six-day Arab-Israeli war. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hardliners and, through his rapport with then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, helped cement that country's historic 1979 peace agreement with Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

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