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...Blind in St. Augustine as a charity student and learned to read music in Braille. "In Braille music, you can only read so many bars at a time," he once told PEOPLE. "You can't play it and see it at the same time, so your memory and understanding expand." By the time he was 12, his were elastic enough that he could arrange Big Band and orchestral music. Three years later he hit the road as a singer and pianist...
Segway sightseeing is catching on around the world. David Mebane, 28, added a Segway tour to his repertoire of bike tours of Paris last year. It has been so successful that he now offers a similar tour of Nice and plans to expand into Chicago and New Orleans this summer. "The growth has been really quick and unbelievable," says Mebane. It's also not a bad bit of promotion for Segway, which has sold relatively few of the space-age transporters since introducing them in 2002. "Tour groups have definitely raised the awareness and familiarity people have with the Segway...
...outcry over U.S. corporations' hiring white-collar labor abroad grows ever louder, an expanding body of research and analysis suggests that a job gained overseas isn't necessarily a job lost at home. According to a study by Matthew Slaughter, an associate professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, during the decade ending in 2001, U.S. firms hired nearly 3 million workers abroad, up 42%. At the same time, companies also expanded their U.S. work forces by almost 5.5 million, or 31%. Often, "as firms expand or sell in foreign markets, they have to hire people...
ENERGY Kerry would push for tougher emissions standards, which would hurt coal companies like Massey Energy and coal-burning utilities like Southern and FirstEnergy. "Alternative energy sources [Vesta Wind Systems, Tetra Tech] would benefit," says Greg Valliere, Washington strategist at Schwab. Bush's willingness to expand oil drilling in Alaska might help BP and Nabors Industries...
HEALTH CARE Kerry wants to import cheap drugs from Canada, which would hurt stocks like Pfizer, Merck and Eli Lilly. Bush opposes such imports. But hospital firms may do better with Kerry, who wants to expand Medicaid and give more patients the means to pay their bills. "Companies like HCA have been hindered by bad-debt expense," says Wendell Perkins of Johnson Family funds. "We like HCA anyway, but a Kerry win would make it more attractive...