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...officials from San Francisco International Airport, the California department of transportation, the city of Palo Alto, Stanford University and Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers. Especially gratifying to Kamen was the reaction of Andy Grove, the chairman of Intel and, unlike so many Silicon Valley boosters, a bone-deep skeptic. Perched tentatively on the machine, the 65-year-old Grove was rolling slowly along when Doerr ambled over and pushed him in the chest. When the Segway kept him from losing his balance, Grove emitted a distinctly un-Grove-like giggle. "The machine is gorgeous," he said later...
...common sense who hired good people and learned to fire those who weren't. She bet the farm on editor Ben Bradlee, who had Phil's manic brilliance without the depression. The Post went from a decent, dull paper to a crackling, moneymaking one. She was not a natural skeptic but a natural, principled truth teller, shaking the Establishment of which she was a pillar. Against the wishes of financial advisers worried about the Post's imminent IPO, she published the Pentagon papers. Alone among publishers, she followed the facts in Watergate. With the creation of the paper's irreverent...
...common sense who hired good people and learned to fire those who weren't. She bet the farm on editor Ben Bradlee, who had Phil's manic brilliance without the depression. The Post went from a decent, dull paper to a crackling, moneymaking one. She was not a natural skeptic but a natural, principled truth teller, shaking the Establishment of which she was a pillar. Against the wishes of financial advisers worried about the Post's imminent IPO, she published the Pentagon papers. Alone among publishers, she followed the facts in Watergate. With the creation of the paper's irreverent...
...skeptic, all evidence is anecdotal. But some anecdotes are more than encouraging; they are inspiring. Consider Sue Cohen, 54, an accountant, breast-cancer survivor and five-year yoga student at the Unity Woods studio in Bethesda, Maryland. "After my cancer surgery," Cohen says, "I thought I might never lift my arm again. Then here I am one day, standing on my head, leaning most of my 125-lb. (57-kg) body weight on that arm I thought I'd never be able to use again. Chemotherapy, surgery and some medications can rob you of mental acuity, but yoga helps compensate...
...left rebranded itself, the right retrenched. The Tories' abysmal campaign exposed the party as hoary and clannish, with no creative agenda beyond nationalist scaremongering about the euro and asylum seekers. Voters didn't go for it, just as Germans have turned away from the periodic Euro-skeptic and anti-immigrant noises made on the right. The center-right's lurch toward nationalism has disheartened libertarians who believe the free movement of people and capital are core conservative principles. And corruption scandals in numerous countries have damaged conservative credibility...