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...DIED. JAY VAN ANDEL, 80, billionaire co-founder of direct-sales behemoth Amway; in Ada, Michigan. With his childhood friend Richard DeVos, Van Andel founded the company in the pair's basements in 1959 and built it into a worldwide network of individual distributors who sold cosmetics and furniture polish and earned a cut for recruiting others. In the 1970s the U.S. government investigated Amway, suspecting it was a pyramid scheme, but the charges were never proved. In 2000, Amway became part of a larger sales and business-services company, Alticor Inc., formed by Van Andel's and DeVos' families...
...QUITTER ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL Written by Harvey Pekar and illustrated by Dean Haspiel. Pekar's first work for Vertigo, THE QUITTER is an original graphic novel that mines tales from Pekar's childhood and early adolescence. (FALL...
...folk artist Emory Blagdon’s installation “The Healing Machine,” as a significant influence. People are represented through triangles of multicultural construction paper (a material stemming from multicultural crayons used to render different skin tones), while the brighter top row alludes to childhood learning experiences...
...Favorite childhood toy: Bedazzler...
...believes that our current energy supply is detrimental to the weather, the effects of burning coal and oil are felt at home, and in our lungs, every day. The stuff that comes out of power plant smokestacks has contributed to make asthma one of the fastest growing childhood ailments in industrial and developing countries alike, and has also recently been linked to lung cancer. Here in Massachusetts, where five power plants burn thousands of tons of coal every year, the effects on surrounding communities are significant. A 2000 study by the Harvard School of Public Health Professors Jack Spengler...