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...past, wealthy benefactors usually waited until their twilight years to ladle out their fortunes, and only after building mansions for themselves and setting aside a sizable chunk for their heirs. Then it was monument-building time, with wings of hospitals, symphony halls, operas, libraries, zoos and other civic institutions being the major beneficiaries. Many of today's wealthy are different. "I'm not just into writing checks," says Kanter, echoing many of her peers. "I want to see and feel the results...
...cases, he is engaging his passion for wine at his 1,200-acre Chalk Hill vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif. Wayne Reaud (pronounced Ree-oh) has used his hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from asbestos and other "toxic tort" litigation to buy the local newspaper and a chunk of downtown real estate in his hometown of Beaumont, Texas. Maryland trial lawyer Peter Angelos, who has been involved in asbestos and tobacco litigation, owns the Baltimore Orioles...
Happily, not everyone's safety has been left in the hands of a glacially slow congressional committee (and the attentions of phone company lobbyists who see a considerable chunk of their clients' revenue disappear into thin air). One community has leapt to the defense of pedestrians and responsible drivers everywhere: On Friday, the township council of Marlboro, N.J., announced a ban on drivers' use of hand-held phones. And while the image of disapproving councilmembers might not inspire the fear and trembling required to convince errant drivers to pry their Nokias from their ears, perhaps the prospect...
...time saved on a trip down the river could generate an extra nickel or dime of profit on every $2 bushel of corn floating down the Mississippi. "I produce about 100,000 bushels of grain a year, and 5[cents] on each one is a pretty good chunk of change that goes straight to my bottom line," says Gregory Guenther of Belleville, Ill. The river, 22 miles from his 1,000-acre farm, is transportation for all the corn and soybeans grown on his land...
...good chunk of the electorate, there's no incentive to turn out [to vote] because their vote doesn't matter," said Tami S. Buhr, the research coordinator for the Shorenstein Center...