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...went on to become executive vice president for Coca-Cola in 2001, and currently holds a year-long $2.1 million consulting stint with the company...
...After a stint driving the route by Mather House, Armstrong jokes that he gained his own group of “angels,” a reference to the television and movie series “Charlie’s Angels...
...stresses on the crew would be unprecedented. Marsnauts could be exposed to high levels of radiation from cosmic rays and unpredictable solar flares. After a long stint in zero gravity, the space crews' muscles, including their hearts, would weaken, and their bones would lose calcium. And it may be inevitable that a small group of people living together in cramped quarters for years would fall prey to loneliness, boredom and squabbling. Admitted Sally Ride, who shared one of her two space flights with six other astronauts in the crowded confines of the shuttle: "You'd have to be very careful...
Koons' passion for leafy produce began when he was a boy. While he was growing up on a self-sustaining farm in Oregon, his chores included saladmaking. Not long after he turned 18, he parlayed that skill into a several-year stint as a chef at the famed Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., before moving into the produce industry...
Even though my own stint as founder of an exclusive club should give me some sympathy towards these guys (a few of whom I even consider good friends), I’m afraid I don’t have much. I’ve spent four years at Harvard watching final clubs make non-members feel inferior. It bothers...