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Awakenings, with 12 chapters in the New York City area, is a program aimed at "robust responders"--medical jargon for high-functioning individuals. Founder Ken Steele, who for 32 years wandered across America homeless and schizophrenic, feels that the most formidable task for the mentally ill is overcoming the social stigma. "The public's synonym for us is still psycho," he says. "We are feared and misunderstood." Partly to counter this, individuals with mental illness call themselves "consumers"--an emotionally neutral word meant to suggest people who consume medications and services associated with psychiatric disability. A voting effort, for example...
...begins with the boys' auditioning and by the end of the season, ABC is betting that we'll have a weekly behind-the-scenes look at the newest pop culture phenomenon. It gets better. Guess who the producer of the actual band will be? That's right, Lou Pearlman, founder of 'NSync, Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. ABC and Jive are both betting on "O-Town" to be a mega-success. Check out www.bunim-murray.com for more info on how you can be a superstar... (I'm assuming that you have to be white, be from either Kentucky or Idaho...
...yesterday at lunch to eat an overpriced cheeseburger in the balmy Vegas sun, I ended up talking to two Danes who are visiting the U.S. to drum up business for what they called the world's smallest web server. They don't have a booth, but the company's founder pulled a half-sized business card from his pocket to show me an actual-size photo of a three-chip board that -- they hope -- will put humble devices from security cameras to battery back-up systems to toasters on the Internet...
...difference between selling in a supercenter and a Wal-Mart? I can't tell you I can give you a definite answer. But I can tell you that I have a rationale for it." Nevertheless, within the company and without, there was muttering that Sam--Wal-Mart's late founder, Sam Walton--wouldn't stand for such a thing. Wrong, says Glass. Sam knew better than to buck the customers...
...whine into the telephone at Rob Glaser, founder and CEO of Real Networks. I am very agitated, O.K.? I admit it. Last week The New York Times broke a story reporting that RealJukebox, one of the most popular pieces of music-playing software on the Net, is a secret...