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...taken a series of tragedies for public officials to begin to notice. In California regulators moved to revoke the licenses of nine facilities run by Regent Assisted Living Inc. after Lucille Giroux, 79, bled to death in her rocking chair at Sunnyside Court in Fremont. According to the state's investigation, she twice pressed her call button and no one came; Regent says no call for help was made. In Falls Church, Va., a 93-year-old woman was killed in May when, after she fell down outside, her facility's van ran over her. Lawmakers in Virginia...
...move on--to step out, as he put it--was Bob Dylan. One other person, Richard Farina, may have realized it too, but he died in a motorcycle accident in 1966, just as he was poised to become Dylan's great rival. In Positively 4th Street (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 328 pages; $25), David Hajdu adds an important chapter to the Dylan legend by recounting the professional and personal loves of these two men and the music that fueled...
...Alcatel Optronics Public company based in Nozay, France CEO: Jean-Christophe Giroux What it does: Makes active and passive optical components Why it is hot: As one of the few companies that can offer a full range of products, it's catching up to U.S. rivals in market share and is currently bidding $5 billion to buy rival Lucent Technologies' optic fiber unit www.alcatel.com/optronics...
...Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux...