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Every decade has its defining self-help business book. In the 1940s it was How to Win Friends and Influence People, in the 1990s The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. These days we're worried about something much simpler: Getting Things Done...
...recognition that momentum is growing in Washington for legislation to mandate caps on carbon emissions. On Feb. 26, California and four other states agreed to establish within 18 months a market to trade emission credits. TXU, as part of its agreement, plans to join DuPont, Alcoa, General Electric and seven other firms in pushing Congress for a national cap-and-trade program, that would give companies "credits" for carbon emissions to use--or sell at a profit. It's a win for the environment, notes Reilly, and not bad for the bottom line either...
...blog, Whole Foods' Mackey has used a radius of 200 miles to mean local. Measuring from my home, that includes not only much of New York State, New Jersey and Connecticut but also parts of seven other Northeastern states. Such a large food shed produces a great variety of fruits and vegetables, and Whole Foods has said it wants to increase its percentage of local produce. (Of the roughly $1 billion in produce the company sold last year, 16.4% came from local sources, up from 14.9% in 2005.) Last year Mackey announced a $10 million loan program for local farmers...
...Born in Columbus, Ohio on March 15, 1917, Schlesinger left the mid-west for Cambridge at the age of seven, when his father, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., also a leading American historian, joined the faculty at Harvard...
...deferential,” Graysmith says that no one expected him to become so absorbed in the ordeal. Today, 28 years after the first murder, Graysmith still seems like a pretty normal guy. Perhaps a bit eccentric when it comes to his crime novels—seven of which have been published, three of which have been made into films—he is enthusiastic about what he does, and happy to let anyone with the slightest inclination know the thoughts in his head. According to Graymsith, Gyllenhaal, though riveted by the script, hesitated to take the role, afraid...