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...Ainsworths LAFAYETTE, LA. Kirk, his wife Lyndi, baby Jack and daughter Mia, 3, evacuated New Orleans' Mid-City neighborhood before the storm. Heavily armed, the medical-device salesman and friends returned by boat to do search and rescue. At first he thought, "This city is going to be bulldozed." Now he sees an "attitude shift," and says, "Not only can they rebuild this, but I think they can do it better than it was." Still, Mia's first day of school was in Lafayette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Ahead | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

...tramp about the wilderness or have Zen moments atop majestic mountain peaks. Immelt bestrides the summit of General Electric--a $152 billion conglomerate supplying everything from home appliances to jet engines to entertainment, via NBC Universal. When the GE CEO isn't globetrotting in his role as chief salesman, he unwinds with an activity that Earth Day types typically abhor: golf. "What gets me pumped is hitting a six-iron 160 yards on top of a hill," he says unabashedly, speaking at GE's bucolic headquarters in Fairfield, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GE's Green Awakening | 7/7/2005 | See Source »

...among all classes, not just the élite. Still, the streets of Tehran's better-off northern districts were like a ghost town full of zombies, with residents in shock over the accession of a little-known revolutionary and Islamic zealot. "We are doomed," said Nasser Soroudi, 33, a salesman at a photo shop. He, like many of his countrymen, believes that the new President will turn their country into "Taliban-land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's New Hand | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

According to police, Brown Seniors Dana Smith and Rebecca Kidd, both 21, had offered sex for $150 to Inspector Malcolm Brown. The two women pleaded innocent to misdemeanor charges. Police followed up the arrests by raiding the Providence apartment of insurance salesman Stanley Henshaw III. There they found, in addition to small amounts of cocaine and marijuana, more than 100 photographs of 46 women in various states of undress; six of the women were identified as present or former Brown students. Police Chief Anthony Mancuso, who has not charged Henshaw, commented cryptically, "There may not be a prostitution ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Girls? Sex scandal at Brown | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Myron Cohen, 83, stand-up comic who was a star on the Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Catskill Borscht Belt circuit for 40 years, and a favorite of TV audiences on the old Ed Sullivan hour and the Tonight show; after a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. A onetime salesman in New York City's garment district, Cohen specialized in dialect stories and ethnic jokes that were sometimes blue, usually hilarious, but always gentle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 24, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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