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...turned up in Chicago. Lee Miglin, 72, was one of that city's more respected and better-known developers. A coal miner's son turned real estate baron, he had been a major player in Chicago's late-1980s building boom and was a generous philanthropist. His wife Marilyn, 58, was a successful and well-known cosmetics executive. On the morning of May 4, she returned from a business trip to find Miglin missing from their three-story brick row house in Chicago's Gold Coast district. Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly...
Because you are an American, and Americans know that nothing good can last. Every boom goes bust. Every heart gets broken. We have been conditioned to look for the lead lining in every cloud. "There's something about the mandarin class of America--they have a hard time taking yes for an answer," says Philip Burgess, president of the Center for the New West, a Denver think tank. "But after 15 years of hand-wringing about America's competitive decline, the national media [are] coming to their senses...
...middle of the best economy in more than two decades, people in Chillicothe, Ohio, can see the fireworks but can't hear the boom. Prosperity is not a parade through the center of town; it has arrived so quietly, by modem and by minivan, that people here don't trust what they...
...mood in town (pop. 22,176) holds as much superstition as celebration. Stuart Orem manages the 142,000-sq.-ft. Wal-Mart on the city's vast, booming commercial strip, built 18 months ago on what was once a lovely cornfield. His office is lined with computers that every day spit out new evidence about a windfall he doesn't quite believe in. "I don't think it's hit this area yet," he says of the economic boom, one day after his sales of patio furniture jumped 100% over the same day last year. The next morning, Charles...
After a decade of grim headlines about spiraling hospital bills and shifty HMOs, the boom in self-medication comes as no surprise. "People are fed up with the high costs and side effects of drugs," says Earl Mindell, a registered pharmacist and author of Secret Remedies (Simon & Schuster, 1997), a new study of the self-care movement. "We're doubling our knowledge about nutrition every 18 months. So people wonder, instead of treating the symptoms as we've always been taught, why not help your body fight off the problem in the first place...