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Greenly was not reporting for any newspaper or wire service. For the past two years the former vice president of Avon Products, who always dreamed of being a news correspondent, has been acting out his journalistic fantasies by covering events, writing stories and transmitting them by modem to the mainframe computer of the Source, an electronic information service. That enables any of the Source's 60,000 subscribers to call up Greenly's stories on the screens of their computers and, if they wish, to respond with comments of their...
...family is scattered across the nation from Florida to California, but every Saturday we all get together in Lake Wobegon, Minn. Donna C. Noll Avon Park...
Among more conventional stagings of the Bard's work, the R.S.C. offers an electrifying Richard III with Anthony Sher hurtling around the stage as a disabled but untrammeled personification of evil and, at the company's other home in Stratford-Upon-Avon, a darkly funny As You Like It, again dazzlingly directed by Noble. His splendid, spare, Freudian production uses a flowing white sailcloth draped about the stage to represent a snowstorm, a dream-scape, a bower and a marriage tent...
...find stimulating toys for her daughter Tara, the former day-care-center director built Discovery Toys, an educational-toy company, from a $5,000 garage-warehouse operation into an international 40,000-employee direct-sales company with $100 million in revenues by 1997--the year she sold it to Avon...
...clinical tests, each company says its cream decreases the depth of fine facial lines to some degree. None of them claim, however, that their products make wrinkles disappear completely, the way a shot of Botox can. Still, the search for a better fountain-of-youth cream continues. Avon is about to complete a $100 million state-of-the-art research facility in Suffern, N.Y. And Clinique last month announced a $7 million research grant devoted to the study of skin with Weill Cornell Medical College, the first ever collaboration between a university and a cosmetic brand. Perhaps the most revealing...