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...love it and you give it away." He rises from bed and slowly walks to his piano, sits and begins a short piece by Leos Janacek. He opens the nearest window and begins playing with more authority, his eyes closed, his head thrown back, a hand poised dramatically to flourish over the keys. His eyes open again, and now they glow like coals from beneath the white ridges of his skull. At the finish, some color has returned to his face. "There is no ego now," he says. "For the rest of my life I hope to live with grace...
...roles he has played. As a conservative economist with a profound faith in the free market, Greenspan has earned the attention of thinkers in every ideological camp. As a White House official, he displayed the dedication and dexterity needed to fashion difficult political compromises. And, unlike many economists who flourish mainly in the confines of a college classroom, Greenspan scored a solid success in the corporate world. His highly profitable, 34-year-old Townsend-Greenspan consulting firm numbers among its clients some of the largest U.S. corporations...
Farther from the epicenter, in hummocky fields of loose volcanic ash and fine pumice pebbles, willows, red alder and an occasional Douglas fir have taken root near small ponds. At the waters' edge, Pacific tree frogs and salamanders now flourish. Large bodies of water like Spirit Lake, which was filled with organic debris and robbed of its oxygen by accompanying bacteria during the eruption, have made even more rapid recoveries. Algae, zooplankton and freshwater crustaceans have all recolonized the lake, prompting authorities from the state department of game to push for the restocking of such game fish as rainbow...
...Zandt had helped produce three of Springsteen's hottest-selling albums. Tunes he wrote for the Jukes and Gary "U.S." Bonds, like Daddy's Come Home, showed high-end gifts for songwriting, even though he insists, "I hate all ballads, including my own." Still, it was impossible to flourish on his own and hang in with the gang. "I felt," he says, "a more urgent necessity pulling me. Like, 'Hey, it's time to find out if you got something else to contribute here on this planet.' " Men Without Women, his first Little Steven album, released...
These speedy high rollers are uppercrust DINKs, double-income, no-kids couples. They flourish in the pricier suburbs as well as in gentrified urban neighborhoods. There is no time for deep freezers or station wagons in their voracious, nonstop schedules. Many enterprising DINK couples slave for a combined 100-hour-plus workweek, a pace relieved by exotic vacations and expensive health clubs. Their hectic "time poor" life-style often forces them to schedule dinners with each other, and in some supercharged cases, even...