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...thus, the line-up was made. Seven men, two women. Seven New Yorkers, one Alaskan (Gagnon) and one Chicagoan (Gray). All wealthy. All but one white...
...thus, the line-up was made. Seven men, two women. Seven New Yorkers, one Alaskan (Gagnon) and one Chicagoan (Gray). All independently wealthy. All but one white...
...adamant couch lovers who couldn't care less about socialization and better health, vanity can be a reliable motivator. Chicagoan Merle Smith, 71, a hardwood-floor distributor, says he wouldn't be caught dead working out except for the fact that he has a cute female personal trainer--and she makes him look fine. "A 36-year-old made a pass at me the other day," he says. Two years ago at the Sun City retirement community near Austin, Texas, hunky senior residents agreed to pose for a community-events calendar dubbed--what else--Aged Beef. The calendar's creators...
John Kennedy has high hopes that he will feel well enough this year to work. Born with hemophilia, a hereditary blood-clotting disorder, the 41-year-old Chicagoan contracted hepatitis C through blood transfusions given as part of his treatment. The once energetic attorney was forced to quit his job. Now, however, he no longer needs to take a particular antihepatitis drug that left him heavily fatigued, and he plans to return to work for the first time since 1995. "I'm definitely optimistic that I can start practicing law again soon," he says. The trick will be finding...
Rumsfeld likes to quote a fellow Chicagoan on the efficacy of arms. "You get a lot more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone," Al Capone used to say. Rumsfeld retools the gangster's words for the post-cold war world. "You can substitute 'ballistic missile' for the word gun--and put in the names of some regional Al Capones--and it is every bit as appropriate today," he says. But even if a missile shield works, critics fear it will destabilize current alliances and trigger arms buildups by America's enemies...