Nowadays, Swampscott High School athletic trainer Dennis Borg drives around with a shiny, new piece of equipment that he hopes he never has to use. That piece of equipment is an AED, or an automated external defibrillator, and it can save the life of a person going into cardiac arrest. Borg is mighty happy that he took the time to talk to the Swampscott Reporter in mid-April about what he
"For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond," a rather raffish exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, honors the writer and the character who in many ways was an alter ego.
Do loyalty and dissent sit on different poles? Do only disloyal people dissent from the majority view or from the view of the leadership view of an organisation? Do loyal people always say yes?
The two No. 1 female athletes who abruptly announced their retirements this week sent a welcome message: Dedication and drive to get to the top are important †but life has more than one note, and one act, to it. Having the instinct to know when and how to follow a different path is rare. But, quite clearly, golfer Annika Sorenstam and tennis star Justine Henin have it.
Apologies for the span of time between this blog and its predecessor. The thing about this sort of publication is that it's not deadline-driven, so you can let the days slip by with nothing serious happening, other than one's fans getting withdrawal symptoms.
Driving to the Fairmont Hotel to listen to a presentation on female CEOs in tech, I had one thought: Are we still discussing this? Still? In 2008? But of course we are.
Charlie McCreevy: "We cannot get up in the morning and feel badly about something and, with a flick of a finger, just change it. We have to go through very detailed procedures".
As rising fuel prices propel airfares steadily upward, most travelers would like nothing better than to see a new low-cost carrier with rock-bottom ticket prices.
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