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Kate Beggs is just that sort. The UC-Boulder grad student worked with Amadei last year in Rwanda, where their team designed solar lighting for a local clinic and gave scores of young girls lessons in the basics of engineering. The chance to temper classroom learning in the heat of the real world is enough to draw many pupils to the group. But an increasing number of students, like Beggs, believe EWB will shape their professional future. "For our generation of engineers coming out of school, we won't just go the usual route of client work and consulting," says...
Even volatile gas prices do little to temper the enthusiasm of full-timers. Howard Payne estimates that he travels between 1,000 and 1,200 miles (1,600 and 2,000 km) per month, but he still insists that "the cost of fuel is not the big issue many folks think it is." The Paynes, both in their early 40s, opted for an earlier than expected retirement after a FORTUNE 500 company bought their small real estate insurance business and imposed heavy demands that strained the couple's relationship. The choice has required them to live on a tighter budget...
...Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. The latter's success got the most attention because its CEO, Jamie Dimon, was once in line to succeed Sandy Weill at Citigroup. According to Monica Langley's book Tearing Down the Walls, Dimon, a notoriously tough manager, got the boot after losing his temper with a fellow executive who had been rude to a colleague's wife at a 1998 corporate retreat. Prince, Weill's legal adviser, inherited the top job in his place...
...Obey is also known on Capitol Hill for his mercurial temper. He once famously got into a shoving match with former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on the floor of the House and this spring was dubbed "Mount Obey" by Politico, a daily Hill newspaper and political website, because of an eruption at anti-war Democrat Dennis Kucinich for asking what Obey deemed a dumb question...
...Obey's temper that got him into trouble last year when he was approached in the hallway by a member of an antiwar group called Code Pink. Calling them "idiot Democrats" who couldn't grasp why it was impossible to cut funding to the troops at that time, Obey became a YouTube star for that, and he later apologized...