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Maurice Raymond Greenberg was born in New York City on May 4, 1925, the son of a cabdriver. His obsessive desire to reach the top and stay there may be rooted in a once-poor kid's inferiority complex. His father died in a car accident when he was only 6. His mother, a manicurist, remarried and moved to a dairy farm near the Catskill Mountains of New York. On the farm, he had daily chores that included milking the cows twice a day. Greenberg soon proved his talents and his competitive drive. He was a starting football player...
...developers of Tokyo's Epson Aqua Stadium have their way, visiting an aquarium will no longer be the preserve of schoolchildren and young families. Instead, bored office workers are the target of this snazzy complex, which opened in April next to the Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Shinagawa, one of Tokyo's prime business districts. Described as "entertainment for adults" by spokesman Naoto Takahashi, the theme park boasts facilities designed to lure grownups from their usual happy-hour haunts, featuring a slick restaurant and caf?-bar, concert hall (U.S. surfer turned songwriter Jack Johnson recently performed) and, of course, an aquarium...
...first plane to hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, "had considered targeting a nuclear facility he had seen during familiarization flights near New York." At the dawn of the Iraq war in 2003, Arizona National Guard troops were ordered to the nation's largest nuclear-reactor complex, the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Phoenix, after U.S. intelligence heard that sleeper cells of Iraqi terrorists might attack...
Those issues are complex, and families differ in countless ways. Yet elder-care specialists see common patterns emerge among siblings as the death of a parent looms. One such dynamic is a renewed competition for their parents' love and favor. "You become needy children again, not getting enough of the goods," says Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford, a professor of psychology at the University of Indianapolis...
Those mixed messages often mask a complex stew of emotional issues with long histories. "Acrimonious" is the way one professional woman in her early 60s describes her relationship with her "very successful" older brother, which is why she insists on anonymity and won't name her brother or allow him to be contacted. She lives in a Northeastern city with their 90-year-old mother, who has midstage Alzheimer's; he lives far away. When they were kids, brother and sister fought over control. Now in their 60s, they're struggling over, well, control. "To me, he was always...