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The Insanity That Is Mattel's Leadership

2015-04-05 01:03:50| Toys - Topix.net

This time, the mistake is solidifying the turnaround management team out of people who helped get Mattel into the decline they're in now. Everyone has done something in their life that has lived up to Einstein's definition of insanity.

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No insanity defense for NY pol in corruption trial

2014-06-04 03:39:04| Footwear - Topix.net

A federal judge has refused to permit an insanity defense for one of the New York politicians about to go on trial for corruption.

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United Kingdom: The bonfire of insanity: Woodland shipped 3,800 miles and burned in Drax power station

2014-03-15 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Mail: On a perfect spring day in the coastal forest of North Carolina I hike along a nature trail - a thread of dry gravel between the pools of the Roanoke river backwaters. A glistening otter dives for lunch just a few feet away. Majestic trees soar straight and tall, their roots sunk deep in the swampland: maples, sweetgums and several kinds of oak. A pileated woodpecker - the world's largest species, with a wingspan of almost 2ft - whistles as it flutters across the canopy. There the leaves are starting...

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The (IN)Sanity of Climate Change

2013-12-07 00:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: Last year a friend of mine and her husband set out with their three children on a trek from Missouri to the boreal forests of central Canada to raise awareness about climate change. She read Bill McKibben's article "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" and, just like that, dropped everything to walk a thousand miles with her family accompanied only by their home-built "Conestoga" wagon. Here's the thing: My friend is NOT insane. She digested McKibben's measured words, backed by the painstaking...

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