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...Eagle Scout and recent recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Clark was very active in the Boy Scouts--until his appointment as the eighth Dean of the Faculty of the Business School in 1995. Though he is no longer a scoutmaster, Clark still keeps his Boy Scout uniform in his office at the Business School...
When he arrived with his family in January 1998, his mission was simple: scout the region and find a single 120-acre plot where Mondavi could produce 240,000 bottles of top-quality wine each year. After two years of road trips, wine tasting and geological surveying, he settled on a patch of scrub-covered hillside on the Massif de l'Arboussas, above the village of Aniane, about 15 miles northwest of the regional center of Montpellier. There was just one problem: the land belonged to the village. "French people wouldn't even think about doing something on common land...
...SCOUT MASTER That stack of business cards waiting to be entered into your address book is not getting any smaller--and you're not getting any younger. Scout, a free service from Ants.com could be your ticket out of data-entry hell. Sign up, and when you enter another Scout member's e-mail address into your Outlook database, her contact information (or whatever part of it she's willing to share) is automatically filled in. Scout will update contact information continuously--no more mass e-mails for address changes. The software is still in its early phases, though...
...watch either. A lesson on basketball skills might involve groups of two-on-two. High schoolers can choose from such activities as Ultimate Frisbee, mountain biking and white-water rafting. Sportsmanship is rewarded; humiliation is unacceptable. Whereas old gym teachers often saw PE as a way to scout varsity jocks, new ones teach a range of cognitive and physical topics, including muscle development, nutrition and cardiovascular fitness. They also tend to be inclusive and strikingly sensitive to their increasingly overscheduled charges...
...Columbian city of Quito, although a score have opened in Cuenca, a mountain community 35 minutes by air to the south. Nearly half the language students are more than 40 years old, with as many from Europe as the U.S. They study Spanish to prepare for travel, to scout retirement sites--or just to learn something new. They are attracted by Ecuador's diverse cultures and spectacular topography. Off-hours, the adventuresome can trek in the nearby Andes...