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Meet the sisters who shattered the CEO glass ceiling
2015-03-26 13:06:37| Food - Topix.net
Two sisters from New Jersey weren't scared to take a sledgehammer to the glass ceiling in the business world Growing up in the 1960s, their dad believed someday the world would open up for women -- and he wanted them to be ready for that. After climbing the corporate ladder at Procter & Gamble, Denise Morrison became CEO of Campbell Soup in August 2011.
Climate Records Shattered in 2013
2014-07-17 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: If global warming could be compared to middle-age weight gain, then Earth is growing a boomer belly, according to a newly released report on the state of the global climate. Climate data show that global temperatures in 2013 continued their long-term rising trend. In fact, 2013 was somewhere between the second- and sixth-hottest year on record for the planet since record keeping began in 1880, according to the climate report, released today (July 17) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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Shattered by Oil: Exxon Arkansas Spill and the People Left Behind, Part 1
2013-11-25 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: On March 29, 2013, an ExxonMobil oil pipeline that runs under a tiny residential neighborhood in Mayflower, Ark. split open and spilled 210,000 gallons of Canadian dilbit across backyards and streets and in waterways. InsideClimate News spent months reporting the spill [3] on the ground. In Part 1 of "Shattered by Oil" [4]an ICN co-production with This American Land [5]Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth McGowan [6] returns to Mayflower, Ark., to explore the fate of residents who are living with the...
A Neighborhood Shattered: Families Emptying Out of Oil-Hit Arkansas Town
2013-11-25 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: American property owners battling to stop energy companies from snaking oil pipelines across their lands need only look to Mayflower, Ark., for a window into what can go wrong when pipelines burst in backyards. Eight months after an ExxonMobil pipeline leaked Canadian oil across an Arkansas subdivision, a cloud of uncertainty looms large over the young families, singles and retirees who chose the affordable, decade-old Northwoods neighborhood to establish roots. Nearly half of them have put their...
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Shattered Your Laptop Screen? Corning Feels Your Pain in Brilliant 'Brokeface' Ads
2013-11-12 05:35:13| Electronics - Topix.net
IDEA : When you break the screen of your smartphone, tablet or laptop, a part of you breaks, too.