First things first: this superintendent took on the tough task of building a district from scratch.
There were scorpions, pigeons and snakes in Sue Cleveland's office when she became head of the newly created Rio Rancho district in 1994. There was also an old green Army desk, a broken filing cabinet and a loaner computer. "What have I done?" Cleveland recalls thinking once...

ASE tabbed for NASTF management.
The National Automotive Service Task Force (NASTF) recently accepted a management proposal from the Institute of Automotive Service Excellence. ASE was selected after the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) lacked financial support and ETI, in an effort to speed-up the process, withdrew their proposal. Founded in 2000,...

Faulty transmission: Michelle Kuo on Robert Whitman.
HARDLY ANYONE was in the tent when we arrived. The white marquee housed only a projection screen, chairs, and a bewildering array of cubed focaccia--resembling a car dealership promotion gone awry. But next door, an energetic crew radiating youthful hacktivism and elderly bohemia (and clearly not on their way...

Banks in small communities in Canada: 1998-2004.
Abstract This paper examines changes in the provision of fundamental services to smaller communities in Canada. The research analyzes changes in the network of Canadian banks over the period 1998 to 2004 for the 874 places in Canada that reported populations of less than 50,000 inhabitants in...

Carrot & stick: who walks the walk, who's nothing but talk.
CARROT TO Scientists at Great Britain's Royal Veterinary College for developing a way to determine if eggs labeled "free range" really are. The method uses ultraviolet rays to expose tell-tale patterns on the eggs' surfaces, according to the May 2005 issue of the Journal of the Science...

Homosexuality: is it disgusting, or is it delightful?
THIS IS THE AGE-OLD QUESTION on this topic, and the Catholic church has been delightfully consistent in always condemning homosexuality as a grievous, grievous sin. Grievous, grievous. As we know, Christ came down to earth to instruct us in the ways in which we must limit our...

Sexy Fuel Sippers.
Hybrid cars are electric efficient, gasoline convenient, and the biggest auto innovation in a century MY HEART POUNDS. MY KNUCKLES GO WHITE AS I squeeze the Honda Insight's steering wheel. I'm at the start of one of the short, accelerate-or-die on-ramps of Connecticut's Merritt Parkway, and if...

The $10 million club.
BUSINESS JUST GREW BIGGER in Sarasota/Manatee, at least as measured by the number of firms on our "Top Companies" list. This honor roll of businesses grossing $10 million or more in annual sales swelled from 59 names last January to 81 this year. Admittedly, some of that growth came from...

The $10 million club: our eighth annual listing of the top-grossing companies in Sarasota and Manatee.
Welcome to the club - SARASOTA'S $10 million club, that is. For the eighth consecutive year, we're proud to recognize the private and publicly traded companies in Sarasota and Manatee that grossed $10 million or more in annual sales. This year, 82 companies qualified for our exclusive corporate circle....

2003 top 100 employers alpha listing.
2003 TOP 100 EMPLOYERS ALPHA LISTING Rank Employers 57 3M 53 Abbott Laboratories 7 Accenture 84 Ace Hardware Corporation 86 ACNielsen BASES 74 The Aerospace Corporation 49 American Express Company 69 Aon Corporation 56 Applied Materials 42 Avanade 33 Bank One 37 BB&T 25 Black & Decker 3 Broward...