Word: careful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...financial structures will change," insists Peter Nathan, a Connecticut businessman who is taking a medical-products exhibition to Cuba in January--the first U.S. trade show there since Castro's 1959 revolution. Health care, though advanced in Cuba, suffers severe shortages. At Havana's William Soler Pediatric Hospital, the German and Japanese equipment is obsolete. "It seems medically unethical," says director Dr. Diana Martinez, "not to let Cuba buy this equipment more cheaply from...
What daughters want is pretty packaging, a funky color--and the feeling that the product was created just for them. The Manhattan-based Tony & Tina hawks a $10 nail polish in a bottle that looks like a rocket. Philosophy, founded by skin-care clinician Cristina Carlino, prefers to look inward for inspiration. Each of its products offers a self-help homily. Soul Owner, for example, encourages the consumer to "review your only true assets. You own your values, your integrity." (Not bad advice, though it comes from an exfoliating foot cream.) San Francisco's BeneFit, a specialty store that began...
...three years, Clemmons, 42, who runs a hair-care-products company and has no formal scientific training, has devoted her spare time and more than $10,000 of her own money to solving everyone's favorite engineering enigma: how the Egyptian pyramids were built. Over the years, researchers have experimented with everything from ramps to levers in failed attempts to move counterparts of the three-ton pyramid stones...
...serious standards. So much the worse that for decades he was the best-loved American artist, at least until he was usurped by an even shrewder judge of the national disposition, Andy Warhol. To the art world Rockwell was an exasperating holdout, the man who didn't care that in the 20th century it was simply uncalled for to paint sweet-tempered vignettes in a representational style at something like a molecular level of detail...
...instance), it also confirms us as members of the "sandwich generation," so called because we are wedged between the needs of growing children and aging parents. More than likely, within the next few years my sisters and I will join 22 million other American households that provide care for their older relatives...