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...victim again. Her book A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do (Rodale) offers plans for staying safe while working, shopping, traveling, surfing the Net or going on a date. To avoid being dosed with a date-rape drug, she advises, keep your cocktail within sight at all times, and use Drink Safe Coasters, which can instantly apply a litmus-like test to a drink that may have been tampered with...
...Bacon, one of the greatest British artists of the 20th century. When Bacon died in 1992, he bequeathed his celebrated works and $18.05 million estate to Edwards, the subject of more than 30 of the artist's portraits. Stuffy collectors and museum curators were incensed that a common Cockney cocktail-slinger had made off with the crown jewels of modern British...
...comfortable brown couch, nicknamed “Cocoa.” The mantelpiece, the parquet floor in the bathroom and Butler’s well-selected prints lend the suite a distinctively twenties air. The built-in cabinet and bar are “conducive to parties—cocktail parties,” Butler amends. It is hard to imagine any other kind of gathering taking place in a room with a Winslow Homer painting hanging beside a window overlooking the scenic Charles. Butler proclaims that access to the entryway is restricted to keyholders rather than the more typical...
Strangely, considerations of laws and property rights are glaringly absent from formal theories of economic growth. Each theory mixes a cocktail of labor and capital, looking for determining factors like technology, investment, education, or democracy...
Veteran info-tech executive Liz Ryan never did like professional networking events. During her nine years with modemmaker U.S. Robotics, outside Chicago, industry cocktail parties, at which people seemed intent on bragging their way up the corporate food chain, made her queasy. "I once read that the secret to networking was to enter a crowded room with 50 business cards and get rid of them in an hour. That made my stomach turn," says the unpretentious Ryan. "For me, it would just be wasting cards...