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...Alessandro Conti, a Florentine historian of restoration technique who published a book on the issue. Eliot makes the ridiculous claim that "nearly half of the Sistine ceiling has already been reduced to postcard quality." Beck sees the cleaning as a "dangerous step, taken without real knowledge or adequate cultural background." Eliot compares the cleaning to the shuttle disaster; Beck, to Chernobyl...
Much of Levenson's work depicts old-fashioned working-class life--people felling trees, mining a granite quarry, repairing locomotives, working a farm. That reflects his own blue collar background in Danvers, Mass. His Russian-immigrant parents were poor, but his mother, a seamstress, and father, a tailor, bequeathed good genes to Levenson and his three younger sisters. Today two sisters are also in their 90s, and the "baby" will be 87 on Sept. 30. Levenson, who yearned to be an illustrator, was able to attend the Massachusetts College of Art but left during the Depression. The only work...
...Gene Fairbrother notes, if you're going into a reverse-gender business--especially a bit later in life--it is almost essential that you at least have some background in a related field to get funding and be taken seriously by clients, suppliers and peers. That is especially true if you are starting a business from scratch, as opposed to buying into a franchise, as Cole did. Role-reversing boomers need to utilize all the contacts they have made over the years to help attract customers. They may find more acceptance than they would in a corporate setting, but they...
...instance, Marla Letizia, 52, was able to use her background as a television reporter to help launch her business, Mobile Billboards of Las Vegas. The four-year-old company, with sales of $1.5 million and 30 employees, features billboards on a fleet of seven trucks. The mobile-billboard industry, which is 99% male run, was new and exciting to Letizia and seemed to offer an entrepreneur a lot of potential for growth. "People thought I was crazy, a girly-girl like me who is careful with her hair and makeup working with truckers and going into such a 'guy' kind...
...background was crucial when she was seeking acquisition financing, which she ultimately obtained from Business Loan Express LLC, a New York City--based small-business lender that provides loans of up to $5 million to companies nationwide. "Even though there are no women that I know of running a hardware/farming store," says Chavez, "I was able to capitalize on my knowledge of this field to get a loan and also gain credibility with my vendors...