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They started with pipes and air conditioners. Then they came for Dan. "They literally cut him off at the knees," says Judy Moore, vice president of the neighborhood association in Los Angeles' historic Carthay Circle. Dan is a 7-ft. (2 m) bronze statue of a gold miner that stood in a Los Angeles park for 84 years, holding his sifting pan like a deep-dish pizza. Appraisers say he's worth $125,000. In February, thieves sliced Dan in two and took him to a scrap yard to be melted down for $900. Why did a couple of crooks...
...begin their search for the perfect running mate, those on the short list can sit passively by, waiting for the telephone to ring. Or they can follow the advice of a range of political operatives from both parties who shared their tips with Time on how to go from vice-presidential hopeful to the chosen...
...That big thirst is why it's essential that Coca-Cola addresses water issues as part of its corporate social responsibility program, says Jeff Seabright, the company's vice president of environment and water resources. Population growth and climate change mean that water is no longer available in seemingly limitless quantities - and Coke needs to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. "It's great that companies used to hand out checks for scholarships or to clean up litter," says Seabright, "but increasingly the real relevance is using the company's core competence to address issues that...
...street-cleaning, car-washing and other secondary uses. Leaking pipes have been fixed to save water, and a dry lubricant is used to keep conveyer belts running smoothly with less water. "We recognize the need to be more vigilant in how we manage our water," says C.B. Chiu, vice president and technical director of Coca-Cola China. "If we don't contribute to the community, the community will see us as outsiders...
...neutralizing the Republican advantage on military issues; move to the left by sending the pendulum back in the direction of economic equity; move to the center by replacing an ideological foreign policy with enlightened pragmatism. These are important insights - and far too zesty, I'd guess, to be vice presidential...