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Vikram Seth had a problem. The Calcutta-born, London-based author had exploded onto the literary scene in 1986 with The Golden Gate, a novel in verse set in California. His 1993 Indian saga A Suitable Boy - at nearly 1,400 pages the longest work of fiction in English since the 18th century - sold a million copies in Britain alone. Then came some poems, an opera libretto and ? nothing. "You don't know exactly what to write about next," Seth's mother, visiting from India, told him in 1994. "Why don't you write about him?" She was referring...
...reimburse employees for education, according to a national survey by Hewitt Associates. ? Government employers offer the highest overall level of benefits, a Mercer HR Consulting study found, retailers and wholesalers offer the lowest. ? General Mills employees can buy gas and get auto servicing at company headquarters in Golden Valley, Minn...
...Dagan Los Angeles Al Gore, Entrepreneur I was happy and not surprised to read that with his new 24-hour youth cable network, Current TV, Al Gore continues to be actively engaged in many of the issues that guided him as a public servant [Aug. 8]. Americans missed a golden opportunity to have a truly visionary leader when the Supreme Court essentially selected George W. Bush in the 2000 election. We now find ourselves in debt, involved in a war with no end in sight and viewed by the world as a bully. I was disheartened to read that Gore...
...City--based GfK NOP, a market-research company that in 2004 gathered information on boomers' attitudes toward refinancing. He predicts that there will be a great boomer sell-off in about 15 years and that the market will be glutted. If you need cash from your house for your golden years, it's better to sell now and downsize, applying the appreciation toward boosting your nest...
...first 72 hours after a disaster is the "golden" period. That is when victims should start receiving food, water, ice and medication. "If you are not visible within 72 hours, you will have chaos," says Joe Myers, who was Florida's emergency director from 1993 to 2001. That was a lesson from Hurricane Andrew, when there was looting in parts of Miami-Dade County for at least a month after the storm. "Every minute counts. Every second counts," says Mayor Joseph Riley, who led Charleston, S.C., through Hurricane Hugo...