Word: golden
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...status quo in 1996 was supposed to effect a sort of second Era of Good Feelings--a replication of the rich and peaceful eight years of James Monroe's presidency (1816-24). John Quincy Adams, who succeeded Monroe, referred to the era as "the golden age of this republic...
...Frederic Golden. With reporting by Joseph Ngala/Nairobi
Bill Zanker, 42, is one of those quirky entrepreneurs always on the lookout for the Next Great Idea. Jogging through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park one day, he spotted a man offering massages for $1 a minute. "He was dirty, he looked homeless, and yet people were lined up," recalls Zanker. "I thought, 'What a great idea.'" Browsing the Sharper Image, he found an array of massage-related products that sent his mind spinning. Thought he: "There's got to be a way to bring stress reduction to the masses." Eureka! Zanker opened the first Great American BackRub store...
...homes as possible--not out of any desire to share the resulting economies of scale and cut the cost of funerals but rather to boost prices still higher. The death-care companies seek to ready themselves for what stock-market analyst Steve Saltzman of the Chicago Corp. calls the "golden era" of death, the fast-approaching epoch when baby boomers begin dropping like flies. The Loewen Group is the second largest of the "consolidators," and over the past few years, the company has gained a reputation as one of the most aggressive. It bought its first U.S. funeral home...
Some stars are host to fund raisers. Others make speeches at the Oscars. When WOODY HARRELSON has a cause, he gets arrested. In June, Harrelson was nabbed for planting four hemp seeds in Kentucky to promote hemp's usefulness as a crop. Last week he hung from the Golden Gate Bridge with other environmentalists, snarling traffic and doing interviews by phone to protest the logging of a redwood grove in Northern California. "I just lately learned about climbing," the actor told the San Francisco Examiner. "I didn't get much sleep last night." Back on earth, he was arrested (again...