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Marshall ordered the skull from Valley Anatomical in Los Angeles, a company that specializes in making casts of fossils. In his years teaching at the University of California at Los Angeles, Marshall was a regular customer of the company, always ordering from Mary Odano, a 79-year-old cast-maker who formerly worked for the Natural History Museum in L.A. before she retired to making replicas. “She’s great,” Marshall raves. After the accident, Odano immediately sent along a new set of teeth and spray paint glue to touch...
During investment banker Herb Allen's annual gathering for media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, last July--when locals were paid $20 an hour just to be available for baby sitting--Coca-Cola CEO Douglas Daft at one point turned for advice to investment legend Warren Buffett, who sits on Coke's board. What would happen, Daft wondered, if Coke suddenly stopped giving Wall Street quarterly earnings estimates? Buffett answered that Coke's shares would be more volatile and some investors would sell but that these were prices worth paying. Daft would forever "be free from that fiction," Buffett said...
Stock options are another Buffett hot button. While that Sun Valley conference was under way last summer, Coke's board voted to begin treating the options it grants to executives and other employees as an expense that reduces reported earnings--which is how Buffett and increasingly others say they ought to be accounted for. Coke was just the third large company to make the change, preceded years earlier by Boeing and Winn-Dixie Stores. Since Coke made the move, about 150 others have piled on. The Financial Accounting Standards Board is widely expected to begin requiring such treatment of stock...
Craig Newmark runs his empire from the first-floor parlor of a tidy Victorian-style flat in San Francisco's cozy Cole Valley neighborhood. "I spent all morning fighting evil," says the soft-spoken computer programmer, who founded a modest electronic mailing list for local San Francisco events in 1995 that has spread to 17 other cities, from Phoenix, Ariz., to Boston, and evolved into a virtual community drawing more than a million visitors a month. Through its online classified ads, racy personals and raucous discussion groups, Craig's List craigslist.org has become the best one-stop-shopping place...
...recent graduate of Amherst College, I can testify that snow-penis construction is a frequent Pioneer Valley phenomenon—at Smith College (News, “Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate,” Feb. 24). I would be interested in hearing Keel’s opinions on those artifacts, as “forceful” males are in no way involved in their creation, and the people most likely to defend them from destruction would be their female creators...