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...Corporate Classroom Like many of the buzziest concepts in education today, turnaround is a term cribbed from the corporate world. Many a failing company has been transformed by new leadership or some sort of reorganization. An education consultancy published a report last year that pointed to Continental Airlines and the New York City Police Department as entities that in the mid-1990s were able to effect "rapid U-turns from the brink of doom to stellar success." (Hence Domino's Pizza's new ad campaign, the Pizza Turnaround, which highlights its efforts to make its core product taste less like...
...anyway, there is literally not enough celery root grown in the world for it to survive on the menu at McDonald's - although the company could change that, since its menu decisions quickly become global agricultural concerns. Not long after he arrived at McDonald's in 2004, Coudreaut added to the menu an Asian salad that included edamame. The Soyfoods Council, a trade group, immediately got calls from consumers across the nation looking to buy edamame at their grocery stores. "Now you can find it in supermarkets all over," says the council's executive director, Linda Funk, who has even...
...average person do to help the national economy? -Soyeun Yang, Superior, Colo. It just really comes back to all the virtues we've been taught since we were born: hard work, education, having the proper skill set. Americans, in my judgment, are the most entrepreneurial, innovative people in the world. Sure, we have our problems, but I can't find another major economy that doesn't have more serious ones...
When I was in Haiti covering the aftermath of the Jan. 12 monster earthquake, friends from around the world e-mailed or called to ask what it was like. Was the damage as extensive as it seemed on TV? How were the survivors coping? The question I was asked most of all: What are they doing for food? Many friends didn't believe my answer: "They're eating cookies...
Across the quake zone, relief agencies were quickly distributing some 30 tons of high-energy cookies that the World Food Programme (WFP) developed for just this kind of emergency. Each 100-g packet--that's roughly the weight of two Snickers bars--delivers 450 calories of energy, a bunch of vitamins and minerals and up to 15 g of protein and 15 g of fat. Oh, and no more than 15 g of sugar. This is meant to be survival food, not Red Bull in solid form...