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...airlines are finally fighting back. Leading the way is Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways. In the aftermath of the assault on Weir, who required 18 stitches, Branson engineered a British lifetime air-travel ban on Handy. As the industry convened last month in London to address the overall problem, he urged carriers to establish a worldwide air-rage database to blacklist the worst offenders. "There [must] be a deterrent against this behavior," Branson says...
...surprise. "People have this image of private banking as a crusty old frock-coated Lord and Lady Jemima Puddleduck having tea with the bank manager," says Simon de Ferrer of the Royal Bank of Canada. "But the new wealth is more like Richard Branson"--the flamboyant British founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Records...
...find it in a new Gibson guitar, in kiosks at the Nature Company stores and even in the Portland Trailblazers' practice court. It's wood harvested responsibly from an eco-friendly commercial forest, not timber stripped from a virgin rain forest. How do you know? The Forest Stewardship Council says...
Will all these initiatives eventually take the pressure off the world's remaining virgin forests? Knock wood...
After performing what Kelly called "a sort of Cliff-Notes version of The Rite of Spring, complete with sacrificial virgin," the students ran out of Sanders Theatre accompanied by applause and cheers from the class...