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...including Slender Lady, started in 1997 in Lompoc, Calif., and Ladies Workout Express, launched last year in Atlanta. That trend, combined with the rising number of Curves locations, has some franchisees worried they will soon be fighting not only fat but one another. Karen Morey, 40, who opened her Burton, Mich., Curves last April and has more than 750 customers, says, "I wonder if we're going to saturate the market." Heavin says at current growth rates, the domestic Curves franchises will be sold out next year. There are 500 foreign franchises, in Mexico, Canada and several European countries...
...lucky, every company has at least a few employees like Burton Jenkins. An executive assistant at a large financial-services firm in New York City, Jenkins, 28, is one of those unflappable, capable people who cheerfully work long hours and expect no more extra reward than the satisfaction of doing good work and having it acknowledged. If only that spirit could be inspired in an entire work force...
...points out that many other artists—James Earl Jones, Richard Burton and Carly Simon—have undergone similar transformations...
...comic strips and radio serials shaped children of earlier generations, so television shows formed the children of the 1980s. Ours is a generation that can sing the opening strains of the Sesame Street theme song, a generation that read along with Lavar Burton and a generation that can name the majority of the Muppets. Because ours is a generation of children reared on television, college students felt a personal sense of loss on learning last week that Mister Rogers, the television neighbor of our childhood, had died of stomach cancer...
...Virginia the DMV levies a service charge on credit-card payments. California is expected to triple motor-vehicle--license fees, adding nearly $4 billion a year to the state's coffers. Higher income taxes for the wealthiest Californians are a possibility too, according to Democratic state senator John Burton. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is weighing a surtax on those who earn more than $200,000 a year...