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...finish one. Each completely recyclable plastic mold produces a dozen boats; next door it takes a mold per boat, and each year thousands of used molds have to be buried in landfills. Each VEC hull is so strong that Genmar has announced a lifetime warranty instead of the normal five years...
This demand for more class time has driven some educators a step further. More than 3,000 schools have retooled their calendars, sprinkling several shorter but "optional" breaks throughout the year, adding a month or two to the normal school year or even holding class on Saturdays. "Students today simply need more time to be successful," says Judith Johnson, a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Education. "The 180-day school year is obsolete...
...doesn't happen, we find it difficult to change our own lives and schedules." Parents could take a few pointers from DeAndre Womack, a St. Louis sixth-grader. The shrinking summer suits him just fine. "My friends teased me about it in the beginning," he says. "But it's normal for me now." And perhaps soon enough for everyone...
...those of you who don't know what W is because you are normal, it is an oversize, snotty fashion magazine. The June issue ran this tidbit: "Those adorable newlyweds Vanessa and Bill Getty hosted a gala wine tasting and auction at the St. Francis Hotel with the swell crowd invited"--just a page away from a picture of someone named Muffy Potter Ashton. I mock the magazine partly because I figure if I make the editors mad enough, they will cut me from the spread and no one will have to see the pictures of me. But mostly because...
...recent innovation is the combination of some Ashoka operations with McKinsey's expertise. In the slums of Sao Paolo, Brazil, an Ashoka entrepreneur named Leonardo Pessina was able to build high-quality housing at less than half the normal construction cost by getting the community to provide much of the labor. But managing a huge construction operation threatened to overwhelm even the committed Pessina. So McKinsey made available about 25% of its local staff as volunteers to manage the project. And the consulting firm received a major payback. "McKinsey has an understanding of the local housing market that it never...