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Wildlife and rural life are already on the retreat, though, in places like Minturn, tucked under sharp cliffs at an ear-popping altitude of 7,800 ft. Developers, second-home builders and fast-money types view the old ranching-and-mining community of 1,200 as the next Vail or Jackson Hole with a more down-home bent. Main Street is torn between past and future: tin-roofed bungalows abut spanking new commercial buildings, and Volvos and BMWs with out-of-state plates honk at stray dogs...
...illustrating the power of interpersonal relationships, the Hawthorne studies helped birth the field of industrial psychology and the obsession with teamwork that we feel every time we haul ourselves to a corporate retreat designed to help us better bond with co-workers. But the world of work has changed quite a bit during the past 80 years. The idea that the power of the group comes primarily from the group itself is as outdated as the rotary dial, according to Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and Henrik Bresman, an assistant professor of organizational behavior...
...price to our withdrawal from Vietnam, and we can hear it in the words of the enemy we face in today's struggle - those who came to our soil and killed thousands of citizens on September the 11th, 2001." Bush then quoted top al Qaeda figures citing the U.S. retreat from Vietnam as both an example of American weakness and a goal to aim for in the Middle East. "Here at home, some can argue our withdrawal from Vietnam carried no price for American credibility, but the terrorists see it differently. We must listen to the words of the enemy...
...years as a teacher in Calcutta with the Loreto Sisters (an uncloistered, education-oriented community based in Ireland), Mother Mary Teresa, 36, took the 400-mile (645-km) train trip to Darjeeling. She had been working herself sick, and her superiors ordered her to relax during her annual retreat in the Himalayan foothills. On the ride out, she reported, Christ spoke to her. He called her to abandon teaching and work instead in "the slums" of the city, dealing directly with "the poorest of the poor" - the sick, the dying, beggars and street children. "Come, Come, carry Me into...
...sides that had once been overrun by those angry mobs. Far from the dignified solemnity of the old Viceroy's Palace, dozens chattered and applauded when the Governor laid flower petals at an altar to Gandhi. Crowds of enthusiastic well-wishers turned his polite withdrawal into a prolonged retreat...