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...revenue, and he has named Bradford, 42, head of Microsoft's new global sales unit to do it. "I'm not afraid of anything, much less Google," says Bradford, formerly in charge of North American sales. She has already bulked up her sales staff by 100 and will soon roll out a new system to target ads. Bradford is also personally prepared for the hard road ahead: she just bought antiwrinkle cream and a suitcase...
...road." She nods. In the gunner's hatch, she is armed with a 240 Bravo machine gun that fires 950 rounds a minute, but she is more vulnerable than the men inside the humvee's armored shell to sniper bullets and shrapnel from roadside bombs. As the convoy rolls down the back roads, Swenson and the guys in her humvee keep up an easy, comradely banter, joking about the Iraqi kids they see along their patrol: one boy moves like a hip-hop dancer, another like a ninja fighter. Swenson says, "What I'll remember isn't threatening Iraqis with...
RESCUE 'N' ROLL In 2004 Van Halen's David Lee Roth traded a mike for a defibrillator as an EMT. After 200 sorties on the job, he mused, "Not once has anyone recognized...
Areva and Lauvergeon are on a roll these days. Nuclear power, written off as dead throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world over the past two decades, is suddenly back in fashion. The public still shudders when recalling the accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island plant in 1979 and the disaster at Chernobyl seven years later. But with worldwide demand for energy rising sharply, oil spiking at more than $60 per bbl. and fears growing about the lasting impact of greenhouse gases, the outlook for nuclear power today is, well, quite radiant...
...issues" competing for resources, says Dr. Lucille Blumberg, head of the epidemiology and outbreak unit at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. Referring to AIDS, she notes: "We already have an epidemic here that's killing hundreds of people a day." A spokesperson for the World Health Organization's Roll Back Malaria program points out that while the need for malaria funding tops $3 billion every year, only $600 million was available in 2005. International donors need to be very sure that they aren't robbing from other health programs to pay for bird-flu measures...