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...much controversy provoked by a young woman who shuffles around the recording studio in fluffy red slippers, looking like a teenager on a sleepover at a girlfriend's house. Professionally, though, she's maturing fast. For one thing, Monheit knows how not to let her critics get any traction. What did she think about a particularly rough piece in the New York Times magazine last December? "I learn something from everyone who writes about me," she says, with hardly any coyness...
...notion of the sustainable corporation is getting traction in the most unlikely places. Just three years ago, companies like Ford were members of the Global Climate Coalition, a U.S. business lobby that claimed the global-warming threat (and the Kyoto accord) was nonsense. On the heels of BPAmoco, Ford abandoned the coalition in 1999, and so have the likes of General Motors and DaimlerChrysler. Once renowned polluters like chemical giants Dupont and Dow are spending heavily on "green" solutions to business...
Even if the U.S. were to decide to go all-out in the war on drugs, it is unlikely that it would be able to get much traction: the countryside is rough, stuffed with guerrilla fighters and lacking the fuel depots, airfields and roads that a modern army needs. Giving Colombia five times the resources would not make the cleanup go five times as fast. It would be like giving your five-year-old a Sun workstation to do her math homework. And no one in Washington wants U.S. soldiers drawn into a long jungle battle. A State Department website...
...Chinese diplomats negotiating the text of a letter from Washington that would allow them to end the Hainan standoff would have been a lot more difficult. And, of course, Beijing's monopoly of control over the Chinese media may have proved extremely useful in developing traction for a diplomatic solution in which one side needed to convince its public that it had received an apology, while the other side had to gesture contritely but ultimately avoid giving...
SPOILER Slows car down and improves traction...