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...only time he loses sleep, says A.G. Lafley, is when he thinks a competitor might beat him to a hot new product. And Lafley is sleeping pretty well these days. The soft-spoken, silver-thatched CEO is leading consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble from one hit to another. Crest's battery-powered SpinBrush for dental care and its Whitestrips for tooth brightening have helped Crest global sales grow 50% in the past two years--a surge unheard of for such a big, mature brand. That kind of innovation has sent P&G's profits into double-digit growth and made...
...twisted legal drama and a heartbreaker because two of the accused were the victim's soft-spoken sons. Within hours in one Pensacola, Fla., courtroom, two juries in two separate trials ended weeks of speculation about a case in which two competing theories were proffered to explain the fatal beating of Terry King, 40. In one trial, prosecutors maintained that King's son, 14, had bludgeoned his father with a baseball bat, urged on by his brother Alex, 13, and that the two then set fire to their house. In the other trial, prosecutors claimed that former family friend Ricky...
...Center for Missing and Exploited Children, says the old adage "Don't talk to strangers" has limited value if the stranger doesn't come off as a potential threat to a child. Young children often envision strangers as evil looking and might not identify a well-dressed, soft-spoken man looking for help finding his dog as someone to distrust. Security expert Gavin de Becker, author of Protecting the Gift (Little Brown), says parents must educate their kids to be assertive and, specifically, to yell and tell. "When someone tells your child 'Don't yell,' that's when they should...
...Would that foreknowledge be insufferable? Not according to José Luis Molinuevo, who this month delivered just that information to some 20 people. If they are not killed by accident or some other disease, these individuals are predetermined to get early-onset Alzheimer's. Molinuevo, a soft-spoken neurologist who looks younger than his 32 years, runs an Alzheimer's diagnosis and counseling program at Clinic de Barcelona, one of the country's leading research hospitals. The other members of the team include a geneticist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist. There are about 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers in Spain...
...given orders to the likes of Paul Newman and Tom Hanks, Sam Mendes hardly cuts an imposing figure. The soft-spoken, moon-faced Englishman who directed Road to Perdition and American Beauty, which won Best Director and Best Picture Oscars, is more Cambridge humanities lecturer than drill sergeant: he pays attention to his actors' needs. "Tom is freer in front of the camera, wants to improvise more," Mendes explains. "Paul needs to be more precise, to know exactly what you want." Neither man seems a natural choice for the hard-boiled '30s gangsters they play in Perdition, but Mendes relished...