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...goes, people ask her, "Are you the bear lady?" And it's not because she has a cuddly stuffed bear named Curly strapped into the backseat of her car. A former shoe executive, Clark, 56, is the founder and chief executive of Build-A-Bear Workshop, a mall-based toy retailer that has sold more than 26 million customer-made teddies ($10 to $25 each; outfits and accessories cost extra) since it opened its first store in St. Louis , Mo., eight years ago. Today the chain has more than 180 U.S. stores and 16 overseas franchises; last year it earned...
...wrong, then, about its bet on going green? Exxon is a fuel company, while GE makes "devices," says Stuewer. And therein lies the crux of their differences. Exxon did toy with alternative-energy technologies--most notably with solar in the 1970s--but failed miserably. "Who was brought in to clean it up? Lee Raymond. He sold it all off," says Ed Ahnert, who retired last December as president of the ExxonMobil Foundation. "He learned you stick to what you know best...
...lies naked on an open diaper, his toy legs sometimes kicking and his left hand resting on an ECG sensor just above his hiccuping diaphragm. A cloth shield protects his eyes. His diet, called "hyperalimentation," runs through an intravenous catheter to his umbilical artery. A nurse, who cares for two such children, checks his vital signs every two hours. On a piece of tape holding an endotracheal tube to his cheek, one of the nurses has written...
...were wrong. On Christmas Eve, a tall, thin, bearded man came to the door of the house in the affluent Madrona neighborhood where the Goldmarks lived with their two sons, Derek, 12, and Colin, 10. The stranger forced his way in, waving what later turned out to be a toy gun at the shocked family. According to police, he chloroformed the Goldmarks, handcuffed them, stabbed them repeatedly and bludgeoned them with a steam iron. The assailant left Annie Goldmark, 43, dead and her husband and two sons critically injured. Colin died several days later. Late last week, Derek and Charles...
...youth in a polyglot St. Louis neighborhood pop up again and again in his conversations about design. "I used to crawl behind the radio," says Stumpf, son and grandson of engineers, "and stare at the tubes." Almost every machine, he says, is at some level a toy. "The concept of jauntiness is a quality lost completely in design. It is a wonderful quality. The horse and buggy had it." By jaunty he does not mean arch and joky. "I don't see anything toylike in Memphis," he says of the Italian school of wacky neokitsch furniture. "It would be interesting...