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With 510 franchises in the U.S. and abroad, Le Gourmet Gift Basket in Castle Rock, Colo., is the model of an always-on global business. Employees arrive early--5 a.m. isn't unusual--to deal with clients in other time zones. They have all honed their techniques for avoiding jet lag and fatigue as they travel from the Colorado office to other U.S. locations, like Hawaii, or to Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia to meet with vendors and train new franchisees who sell the company's high-end gift baskets. But that isn't enough for CEO Cynthia McKay...
...fast enough, high enough, scared enough yet? Are we pulling enough G's? Following Thursday's death in Orlando of a 12-year-old boy who collapsed after riding Walt Disney World's Rock 'N' Roller Coaster, the answer may finally be yes. In a scenario that will raise a cold sweat among epinephrine junkies who live for escalations in the theme-park roller coaster arms race, industry insiders are starting to predict that fear will not be the driving factor in the next generation of rides...
...Even the industry's most diligent critics, like Kathy Fackler, who maintains the Saferparks.org website, acknowledge that the odds of injury on a thrill ride are low. Millions of people rode the 7-year-old Rock 'N' Roller Coaster without serious incident before this week. But short of conducting echocardiograms on every child who wants to ride, says Dr. Arno Zaritsky, of the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, there is no way to know who has a hidden heart defect that might not withstand the ride's quick 0-60 mph acceleration, stomach-churning corkscrew turns...
...even more impressively grew, as songwriters, each found in the elder Martin an ideal ear and musical mind, a kind of co-creator. It was Martin who put a string quartet under Paul's solo guitar rendition of "Yesterday" - the first of many flabbergasting expansions of the Beatles' basic rock 'n' roll sound - and who helped alchemize John's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus" into coherent electronic chaos...
...LIVINGSTONES Inspired by her native Nice's shingle beach, French designer St?phanie Marin's line of giant pebble "poufs"?which come in varying sizes?add a surrealist touch to interiors. Covered in soft new wool and dyed natural rock colors, they come in free-form cushion and couch shapes. Buy one, or to get the full-fledged outdoorsy effect, a whole roomful. smarin.net...