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What's wrong with this picture? When George Fisher became the head shutterbug at Eastman Kodak four years ago, things instantly looked brighter for Big Yellow, the world's largest photographic filmmaker. Fisher, who dialed up a triumphant turnaround at cellular-phone and microchip giant Motorola, planned to re-vitalize stodgy Kodak (1996 sales: $15.97 billion) with a burst of digital-age products. Instead of bloody downsizings, Fisher would restore Kodak's faded glory through the magic of growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KODAK'S BAD MOMENT | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...Palm Pilot" digital planners package everything from Tokyo time to Bobby Fisher's chess strategies in an efficient bundle of computer chips the size of your average remote control. Much like the coveted television accessory, however, the rare compu-planners have become sour status symbols, as misunderstood as the channel changer left for dead in a garbage can when its batteries...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: For Rawlins, Two Lunches And Coffee Is Business as Usual | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

After a childhood spent on the plains of South Africa, Fisher Professor of Natural History Alfred W. Crompton still keeps a lion just a staircase away...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Biology Professor Left South African Plains, Settles at MCZ | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

...million endowment for the chair was the gift of Elisabeth A. Hobbs and Emily Fisher, both of whom are GSE alumni and two other female donors who wished to remain anonymous...

Author: By Colleen T. Gaard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gender Studies Panel Celebrates New Chair | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

...thinking... about... where the world is going"! This is behavior we normally attribute to poets and philosophers, people we pretend to take seriously but prefer to confine to the ivory towers of a university, where their radical social ideas will pose no threat to our selfish individualism. JENNIFER FISHER BRYANT Glenmoore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 1997 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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