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...billion domestic-appliances and personal-care unit of Royal Philips Electronics wants more Americans to know that the Dutch giant owns such brands as Norelco (shavers), Sonicare (toothbrushes) and Senseo (coffee makers). "Branding is a priority for this company," says the Italian-born Andrea Ragnetti, 45, who also serves as Philips' first marketing officer ever and has worked in marketing for Telecom Italia and Procter & Gamble. His experience will come in handy. At the top of his agenda: a $13 million ad campaign in the U.S. --By Dody Tsiantar
...provide a magnet to students...so that they can launch their own enterprises, or they can become second-generation leaders in enterprises that are already underway,” said David R. Gergen, who is the director of the KSG’s Center for Public Leadership, the unit spearheading the program...
...horrific illnesses and life-shattering injuries, but at the cost of giving government sanction to the destruction of human embryos. Bush had searched both his soul and his 3-in.-thick briefing book. He had quizzed experts and ethicists and even the doctors in the White House medical unit. In that 11-min. speech, set not in the Oval Office but against an expanse of Texas prairie, the President talked about the dream of wiping out Alzheimer's disease and childhood diabetes but also of the nightmarish "hatcheries" of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The issue, Bush declared, "lies...
...Chinese money referred to as both yuan and renminbi. What's the difference? The latter is the official name of Chinese currency (translation: people's money). The former is the basic monetary unit, like the U.S.$1 note...
Cook’s two ships returned to England sans Cook, and Ledyard went back to his garrison. Feeling trapped in the rigid military, Ledyard deserted when his unit was stationed in Long Island for the Revolution. “Bound by the conventional and the ordinary, he would revolt,” Zug writes. Having quickly spent his navy pay, the poor Ledyard wrote a popular memoir of his voyage with Cook in an effort to drum up support among potential donors for a fur-trading expedition. Ledyard stirred up an interested group, but corruption abounded and Ledyard...