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Peddlers of phony investment schemes often troll for prospects by visiting churches, country clubs or senior-citizen centers, says Tallahassee, Fla., comptroller Robert Milligan. (Not only in Florida, either. The Olive Branch Center in Sun City has had to institute tight screening provisions to keep con artists out of its weekly meetings.) The scammers often perform a legitimate service, such as income-tax preparation, to win the confidence of an elderly customer before pitching a fraudulent investment...
...stint was up, they headed back to Utah, and Huntsman resumed building the $5 billion, 10,000-employee Huntsman Chemical Corp., which he owns outright. Ten years ago, Huntsman shifted his company's mission from pure profit to a three-part priority: pay off debt, be a responsible corporate citizen and relieve human suffering. Thus far, his company has donated $100 million of its profit to a cancer center at the University of Utah. It has also built a concrete plant in Armenia to house those rendered homeless by the 1988 earthquake, and it is active in smaller charities ranging...
...looking forward to being a man instead of 'the man.' Citizen Weld sounds pretty good to me. Not as good as Ambassador Weld, but Citizen Weld sounds good...
Epluribus unum, one nation out of many individuals, the status we enjoy as an economic powerhouse, stems, so the American lore goes, from a firm commitment to personal gain blinds us from seeing a responsiblity to our fellow citizens and, through the state, to ourselves. As Harvard president emeritus Derek C. Bok writes in his most recent book, The State of the Nation, "[T]he United States is constantly at risk of having its people regard their government merely as a service which they purchase with their taxes and which they are entitled to complain about loudly when it does...
...Washington State law forbidding the terminally ill from enlisting doctors' help in committing suicide. Jewell, 58, who has advanced ovarian cancer and an aversion to a bedridden, IV-tubed future, was bitterly dismayed. "I felt a heaviness in my heart," she says. "I've always been a law-abiding citizen, but I think this is a moral right...