| B-schools with entrepreneurial flair
Why we chose it: The Deming Center of Entrepreneurship is nationally known for its excellence in teaching students to create businesses in clean technology and renewable energy. The center helps MBAs commercialize innovations that they develop on campus and at the US Government's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. There is also a school-run business plan competition for clean-tech startups. Colorado also offers Ph.D.s to those with a scholarly bent.
Also appears in: Social entrepreneurship | Undergrads
Notable entrepreneurial alumni:
• Lyndon "Duke" Hanson, Co-founder, Crocs, Graduated 1985 .
Foley: I can't handle a sex talk with my little bro
You never want to think about your little brother's sex life. But one of the things that sucks about getting older is that your siblings get older, too. Except it seems like my siblings are maturing way faster than I did. My 13-year-old brother is always telling me about some of the junior high sexcapades that go on at his school. I didn't really believe him because eighth-graders tend to have wild imaginations. (And Mom, don't worry - it's not him, it's the other kids.) .
Commuters struggle to stay connected
Sean as he heads south on U.S. 85, rolling past farm towns, mom-and-pop scrapyards, gravel pits and, finally, into downtown Denver. Chris as she travels north on U.S. 85, her wheels swallowing pavement along the endless prairie, past deer and antelope and, finally, across the state line into Cheyenne.
The teachers, both previously married, met through an Internet dating service in 2002 and married in 2004. She moved from Cheyenne, her hometown and longtime place of work, to Greeley in 2003, the year he got hired at Park Hill K-8 School a few blocks east of Denver City Park.
Chris, 45, and Sean, 43, say the chatting gets them through.
"It's sort of like she's sitting right next to me except she's somewhere between one and 100 miles away," Sean said of the daily drive.
Obituary: Suzanne Pleshette / Played Bob Newhart's television wife
Suzanne Pleshette, the dark-haired, smoky-voiced actress who played Bob Newhart's confident and sexy wife, Emily Hartley, for six years on the 1970s sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show," has died. She was 70. The widow of comic actor Tom Poston, Ms. Pleshette died of respiratory failure late Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, Robert Finkelstein, an entertainment lawyer and family friend, told the Associated Press. Ms. Pleshette underwent chemotherapy in 2006 for lung cancer. Mr. Poston died in April at age 85 after a brief illness. A stage-trained New York actress who made her movie debut in the 1958 Jerry Lewis comedy "The Geisha Boy," Ms. Pleshette appeared in such films as Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," "Nevada Smith," "Youngblood Hawke," "A Rage to Live" and "Fate Is the Hunter." She also appeared with Troy Donahue, to whom she was married for eight months in 1964, in the 1962 romantic drama "Rome Adventure" and the 1964 western "A Distant Trumpet." On Broadway in 1961, Ms.
Letter to the Editor
I would like to invite Courtney, her friends and the Stanford community to come to the club and to meet me. Have her meet me and judge the experience first hand. If you like playing Scrabble, you just might change your mind. Mitch Bayersdorfer Director, Palo Alto Scrabble Club National Scrabble Association Club #512 .
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