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Harnessing the good, culling the bad: that's where things get dicey. Since the mid-'90s, a growing number of companies have looked to the success of Jack Welch with General Electric to guide them through this psychologically ambiguous terrain. GE's mandate from the top is that high performers--even prodigies--who unrepentantly trash company values are given the boot...
Conservationists are pitted against all-terrain-vehicle and snowmobile users in a battle over access to the White River National Forest. The outcome will set a tone for other national forests...
...ride up the same trail on an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) is to gun a Harley Fat Boy through the yoga class, whooping a great big belly laugh as you send leotarded pixies running for cover. In an hour, you can cover more terrain than you can walk in half a day. Two hours of wrestling your machine up the mountain and you're at 11,000 ft.--in a hallowed piece of Rocky Mountain forest where the air is light and the trees fragile. And it's all yours. The only hikers up here tend to be hardcore backpackers...
...wedding of performer and format. Free of the burden of a full stand-up monologue, Stewart is able to put all his energy and wit into the news and guest spots. The word energy is almost too strong. Much of Stewart's humor seems to spring from an underlying terrain of world-weariness...
...allows for a welcome experimentation that is also transforming the music scene, from trance to underground rock. Ken Matsutani, manager of independent rock-music label Captain Trip Records, says he notices a telling change in his industry?namely, more mainstream acceptance of bands that were once the exclusive cultural terrain of social outsiders. Captain Trip handles a number of psychedelic, '60s-inspired acts, but Matsutani says he isn't used to any of them doing very well outside a small community of die-hard rock fans. But that has changed with the recent success of Yura Yura Tei Koku...