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Lands' End makes its home amid the rolling cornfields of Dodgeville, Wis., (pop. 4,000), where 3,000 workers fill orders in a warehouse the size of ten football fields. The Middle-American locale is what Lands' End is all about. The company cultivates a shamelessly folksy image, urging readers of its magazine ads to call a "friendly southern Wisconsin voice." Lands' End operators, many of whom are housewives or students from the surrounding farm country, are famous for their willingness to chat, even about the weather. "We're trying to build a relationship with a customer, not consummate...
Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology Karel F. Liem and his wife, Hetty, a genetic engineer, last week became the new masters of Dunster House, ending a four-month search to fill the post...
Women in the speedy suburbs need a guilt-free place to gather. Old-fashioned women's clubs no longer seem to fill the bill. The country-club lunch -- a large helping of chitchat served with a garnish of innuendo -- is too fattening and "unsupportive." Self-employed or with part-time jobs, with homes to run and volunteer work to do, what woman can spare three hours for the afternoon bridge club? "Even though there's been a revolution," says instructor Anne Grossman, a part owner of the Pennington Jazzercise Center, "we women have been taught that you don't waste...
...world where a great number of children arrive at school undernourished, neglected and in poor health, many feel that schools have little choice but to try to fill the gap left by the collapse of families and other social supports. "Parents just aren't there today," says David Lawrence, principal of the Thomas J. Quirk Middle School in Hartford, Conn. "We still are. The kids can't be left to founder...
Steps are being taken to fill medicine's information void. In a new field of study called patient-outcomes research, hospitals, clinics, health-maintenance organizations and other medical groups are collecting data on how well various treatments work. Armed with such knowledge, doctors should be able to get better results. Dr. Paul Ellwood, chairman of the InterStudy health-policy center near Minneapolis, predicts that within a year at least 100 patient- outcomes projects will be under way, with sponsors as diverse as the Cleveland Clinic and the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation. High on the list of treatments to be studied...