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...Remodeling more than half its 13,099 U.S. restaurants, which could cost the company as much as $800 million over the next two years, is only part of CEO Jack Greenberg's latest plan to get bloated old Ronald McDonald back in shape. Greenberg is trying to lead a renewed commitment to fast and friendly service, to roll out a national "dollar value menu" and a fresh $20 million national ad campaign. To lay the foundation for future growth, Greenberg is experimenting with all kinds of new restaurant formats: an expanded McDonald's with a sit-down diner serving meat...
...corner of the sprawling building, a fierce battle was taking shape. Parents holding bright orange posters decried Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro as she presented her plan to close three of the city’s under-enrolled elementary schools...
...American public, meanwhile, hears only dissonant murmurs of dissent and is left confused and ill informed. Bush’s rhetorical tyranny jeopardizes our national security as much as the threats that give it shape. Only after we depose that rhetoric and reopen vigorous debate can we properly address the complex Iraqi threat—without the impetuous sacrifice of thousands of lives...
...first-year roommate helps to shape experiences of students at Harvard and at all colleges. For this reason, the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) devotes a tremendous amount of resources into setting up first-year housing groups...
...biotech company that builds fullerenes into molecules that researchers hope will attach to and deactivate HIV molecules and blow up cancer cells on cue. "Buckyballs are not quite like nanosubmarines that target deadly diseases"--as seen in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage--"but because of their size and shape, they are well suited for drug discovery," says Stephen Wilson, co-founder of C-Sixty, based in Houston...