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...known as flexplace, or working by electronic extension from someplace other than the office. Other approaches include the compressed schedule, which packs more work hours into fewer days, and flextime, which lets employees adjust the start and end of their workday to their needs. Eve Elberg, 51, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been back to work since February 2000 after a year-long hiatus because of cancer. The Web and graphics designer was pleased to find that her new employer, a national bank, was open to the idea of her working a few days a week. "They...
DIED. JOSE GRECO, 82, Italian-born Brooklyn-raised dancer who popularized Spanish dance--especially the showy, cape-snapping flamenco--for worldwide audiences in the 1950s and '60s; in Lancaster, Pa. A popular guest on such shows as Ed Sullivan, Greco drew 19,000 fans to a New York City stadium...
...dyed yarn. Her knits are available in cotton to cashmere and include handmade sweaters, skirts, dresses, hats, scarves and quirky but useful knit accessories (cuffs that transform into a scarf for $95). Yarn, patterns and knitting supplies are also available. Stitch by stitch, row by row, the French-born, Brooklyn-bred designer has woven a renewed interest in knitting. Her love of texture, flair for structure and ease with knitting needles has gained a following that has included Julia Roberts, Paulina Porizkova, Sarah Jones, Rosie Perez, Lauryn Hill, Benjamin Bratt and Tricky, to name a few trend-spotters. The "knittress...
Before Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale, there was her Disappearing Acts. Can ambitious singer Zora (Sanaa Lathan) find love with Franklin, the construction worker who fixed up her gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone? Since the soft-hearted hardhat is a statue-buff Wesley Snipes, well, three guesses. As money and personality troubles set in, however, it turns out Zora exhaled too soon. Like many renovations, Acts is most attractive on its glossy surface; too often the subtext crashes clumsily through the drywall. But the leads do hammer charismatic performances out of the material...
Behind the ring, a banner bears his name, and when he enters Gleason's Gym--a slight figure in baggy jeans and red leather jacket--the fighters pounding the bags stop to pay their respects. Here, under the Brooklyn Bridge, where so many legends trained, Zab Judah reigns as a local hero. Since turning pro at 18, he is 25-0. In his last bout, on the Mike Tyson undercard in October, he devastated his opponent with rapid-fire reflexes and a withering overhand left. He fights next in January; and before he gets too heavy for his weight class...