Saturday, July 19, 2008
Find waves
clipped from www.livescience.comEnvironment
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How Tides Could Power the Future
How Tides Could Power the Future
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be healthy
clipped from www.cnn.comGerm warfare moves to the gym
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Our visits to the gym seem to be a lot more dangerous lately. Forget battling only boredom and feeling the pain. Now the fight is us against them -- and the enemy is germs.
To properly fight back you need a three-tiered approach, or so says extra-fit YMCA Group Vice President Kristin McEwen. "The time to de-germ and get yourself primed to fight off gym germs is actually before you work out."
News of MSRA spreading at gyms apparently has taken gym-germ fighting up a notch. More gyms are offering up lots of hand sanitizer, Adams notes, although not all do as much as he wishes they would.
These extra measures add a little more time and effort to her workout, but McEwen believes it's just one more aspect to keeping healthy -- which is, after all, the reason she works out in the first place.
Food for thirst
clipped from http://www.mercurynews.com/lifestyle/ci_9895864Hometown brew: The beer that grew up with Silicon Valley
for the Mercury News
Dan Gordon pushed a lever that opens a tiny, clear plastic line extending from a gigantic fermenter, two stories high, at the Gordon Biersch brewery in San Jose and drew off a few ounces of amber beer into two glasses.
Now there are 28 Gordon Biersch brewery-restaurants across the United States and one in Taiwan, (probably as famous for their garlic fries as their beer) bearing the founders' names even if the two no longer own them.
A mutual friend introduced the men in 1987.
The San Jose-born Gordon had just graduated from the prestigious, five-year brewing engineering program at the
What they do with your money
Shareholder revolt against excessive pay gained steam in 2007
After just nine months on the job as chief executive of Rackable Systems, Mark J. Barrenechea last year became one of the top paid executives in Silicon Valley. He also became a target for a growing shareholder rebellion against soaring executive compensation.
"They didn't do anything legally wrong, but none of it was done with shareholder approval," Leza said. "Things like this should go before shareholders."
The company, which had $353 million in sales last year, made that point to shareholders as it fended off Leza. Furthermore, it said it regularly meets with top shareholders, and, Rackable says in its proxy statement, "there has never been criticism of our compensation practices."
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