Carol Moorehead called for the establishment of an independent marine management body, or at least a single government body with responsibility for marine conservation.

BBC: Environment Committee

Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz recently called Facebook her company's top competitor.

WSJ: Technology News: Yahoo Decides to Friend Facebook

The nursery had to cancel its Christmas carol concert, and parents were called to pick up their children from Stone fire station.

BBC: Meaford Nursery closed after flooding

"We were called the crazies, " recalls JDRF founding member Carol Lurie, jolted into action after the diagnosis of her 10-year-old son. (He's now a parent of a diabetic daughter.) The nonprofit stages a Children's Congress every other year, bringing 150 afflicted kids from around the country to Washington to generate not-so-subtle pressure.

FORBES: Eye On The Prize

Carol Cooper, 38, who lives on the seventh floor, said the tenants had called for the block to be demolished three years ago.

BBC: Questions over fire escape routes