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...other hand, is excessive and detracts from the story of Patagonia’s unorthodox corporate philosophy.Chouinard divides the book into three separate sections, each of which explores the company’s unique facets. The first, and most interesting, part deals with history. Chouinard gives a short, scatter-shot autobiography that hopscotches across time from one rock climbing adventure to another. The founder is an avid outdoorsman who loves extreme sports. He entered the world of business haphazardly by making and selling climbing equipment. The Patagonia clothing line started after Chouinard discovered a market for corduroy knickers and rugby...
...resource,” former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote in a confidential 1999 report bemoaning the deplorable state of College resources. “Once land is gone, it is gone forever.”The only option left is to scatter resources across campus—a serious shortcoming, according to the UC president. “Decentralization,” Glazer wrote in an e-mail, “does not allow for the cohesiveness of an ideal student center.”But maybe what’s missing...
...plans to push deeper into the mountains of Zabul and Uruzgan provinces in the coming weeks. The aim is to scatter the Taliban from their hideouts and prevent them from returning to sanctuaries in nearby Pakistan--where U.S. forces can't venture and where their ultimate prey, Osama bin Laden, may be hiding. U.S. and Afghan officials believe that the war against the Taliban will go on for months, perhaps years. The longer the Taliban survives, the tougher it will become for the U.S. to penetrate the trails that might lead to al-Qaeda's boss. That reality is more...
...have been sent aloft can be rendered only more painful by the recovery of the astronauts' remains. "It just brings it all back again," says Dr. Marvin Resnik, father of Judith Resnik. The Resniks want no funeral service; they have asked NASA to cremate their daughter's remains and scatter them over the ocean, where Challenger met its end. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Michael Duffy/Washington and Jerry Hannifin/Cape Canaveral
Without the reliable standbys of frat row or cheap bars, the relatively meager social offerings on campus splinter even further, decentralizing the undergraduate community as students scatter in search of the perfect party, or really, any party at all. “Harvard is built much more upon [students] finding their own niches,” Aditya H. Sanghvi ’06 says...