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...FlexPetz founder Marlena Cervantes counters that the firm safeguards its animals through customer screening and mandatory training. "We are giving these pets an opportunity to be taken care of," she says. And with $700 in annual fees, plus $25 per weekday rental and $40 per day on the weekend, these pets don't come cheap. But that hasn't kept animal lovers from ponying...
...fact, it was over a cocktail discussion about urban crime that I met Marko Dimitrijevic, founder of Everest Capital, a Miami-based hedge fund firm with more than $2 billion invested through various strategies, although emerging markets are his specialty. Dimitrijevic was curious to hear about crime and its economic effects, which is not unusual for a man who invests in hot spots around the world...
...wonder what it says about our country and culture that we don't take responsibility, individually or collectively, for having clean facilities for people to use," says Steven Soifer, a professor of social work at the University of Maryland and a co-founder of the ARA. Soifer contends that the first step to improving our toilet deficit is to start a national potty discourse: "Ninety-eight percent of Americans don't know the laws regarding the use of public toilets and 80% of businesses do not know," he says...
...federal judge ruled at a Wednesday hearing that three Harvard alums have two weeks to amend their complaints alleging that the founder of Facebook.com—the popular social-networking Web site—stole the idea for the site from them...
...famous Friday-night therapy workshops on Manhattan's Upper East Side, influential psychoanalyst Albert Ellis, above, a founder of the now widely practiced cognitive behavioral therapy, shouted obscenities, sang and offered blunt guidance for patients: Forget "god- awful pasts," face fears and change actions. In this way the rebellious author of more than 70 books, including the best-selling Sex Without Guilt, planned to "cure every screwball in New York, one at a time." Starting in the 1960s, when Freudian therapy was the rage, critics attacked Ellis' rational, short-term approach as superficial. Still, the treatment has been shown...