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DIED. KONRAD BLOCH, 88, German-born co-winner of a 1964 Nobel for discovering how the body produces cholesterol; of heart failure; in Burlington, Mass...
Konrad Emil Bloch, 88, a Harvard University professor emeritus of biochemistry, died of congestive heart failure on Oct. 15. He passed away at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass...
...moment, monitoring for most companies means tracking e-mail and Net use. Elron Software of Burlington, Mass., makes Message Inspector, a program that sniffs out inappropriate terms--as defined by whoever owns it--from incoming and outgoing e-mails. When it finds one, the program obliterates the e-mail or records it in a company database. San Diego firm Websense offers Websense Enterprise, a Trekkie name for a program that blocks access to inappropriate Web pages and logs every minute employees spend on each site...
...Jefferson, the local main street, Weird Harold's Records survives because Dan Bessine, 52, has found a niche the chains can't match. He sells vinyl records on the Internet (find him at Weirdharolds.com) At Valley and Third, the Hotel Burlington reopened as a senior-housing complex this year after sitting vacant for 20 years. And Schramm's department store, which closed five years ago after 150 years of operation, is reopening piece by piece, as a restaurant, small shops and loft apartments...
...unabashedly partial to a town where gin and tonics are available on the street, and even more partial when I'm invited to the party. I can't say what downtown Fort Madison or Burlington will look like in 10 years, or in 25, but I drank to their future, and to the future of every community that stands up to the steamroller. There is some evidence that as the work force becomes more flexible, more of the people who can work from home are choosing downtowns. Ground-floor and second-floor occupancy rates were up in Main Street towns...