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George E. Bates, Williston professor of investment management emeritus at the Harvard Business School, died last Friday at his home in Camden, Maine...
Nowhere is the power of these tools more palpable than at Kodak's Center for Creative Imaging, a converted brass foundry in Camden, Maine. Since the center opened last year under the direction of Ray DeMoulin, a 38-year Kodak veteran, more than 2,000 designers, illustrators, graphic artists and professional photographers have made the pilgrimage to immerse themselves in the new technology. Among those who have come to play at the center's 90 (mostly Macintosh) workstations are photographer Richard Avedon, graphic designer Milton Glaser and illustrator Jean-Michel Folon. (It was here that photographer Gregory Heisler created...
...also more tempting for them to dump their own problems there. Until last summer, Westchester County, a prosperous suburb of New York City, was exporting some of its homeless to a hotel in midtown Manhattan. Five years ago, the sewage-treatment plant in the bedraggled New Jersey city of Camden % began taking on sewage waste from every other community in the county. To protest the stench, residents stopped paying their annual $275 sewer fees. Last week the sewer authority halved the charge, but the plant's odor still tinges...
...inner-city problems often draw the line at paying to solve them. "It does not make sense to take the money away from good suburban schools so that you risk mediocrity everywhere," says Susan Bass Levin, mayor of the wealthy suburb of Cherry Hill, which is outside Camden. As a result of Florio's plan, she claims, her town lost $5 million in education funds in 1989. The following year Cherry Hill adopted the first in a series of annual school-tax hikes to offset the loss...
...Welcome Home" read the digital score-board at Camden last Saturday. It's the 1992 Orioles' theme, meant to return fans to a time when baseball stadiums were homes, not houses. Homes with ivy walls. Asymmetrical layouts. Natural turf. And really good hot dogs...