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Though she enjoyed her job as a quality consultant for Hewlett-Packard, Shelley Comes, 47, was thinking seriously in 1995 about leaving it. Comes was concerned about her 74-year-old mother, who has a heart condition and diabetes and was living all alone on a remote farm five hours away. Then Comes learned that HP was offering telecommuting as an option to its employees. She told her boss she would like to give that elective a whirl. She struck a deal to work three weeks a month from the family farm in Garberville, Calif., and one week from...
...private life, meanwhile, was marked by tragedy. First his son died suddenly in his mid-20s, killed by a heart attack that struck without warning during the traditional May Day ceremonies. A few years later his wife died with equal suddenness, the victim, friends say, of the same inherited heart condition. He has since remarried; his current wife Irina is a doctor...
DIED. JAMES GOLDMAN, 71, history-focused playwright and screenwriter best known for his gripping The Lion in Winter; of a heart attack; in New York City. Though his Broadway version quickly folded, his 1968 screen version of the 12th century battle-of-the-sexes succession fight between Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn) earned him an Oscar. Goldman also wrote the book for the Sondheim musical Follies...
...enough to give anyone palpitations. Scientists have shown that injecting alcohol into a congenitally enlarged heart and deliberately inducing a heart attack can ease the shortness of breath, chest pain and other symptoms of the genetic disorder. The alcohol--it's ethanol, equivalent to 200-proof vodka--kills overgrown heart muscle, enabling blood to flow more freely...
...Cube. The cathartic rage that made JaggedLittle Pill such a novelty has been harnessedand channeled into softer explorations of theself. And for a singer who became famous becauseof her angry ranting and her springy, blaringvocals, this new album proves that Alanis willproduce her best work when she opens her heart tothe subtle (and softer) complexities of life. Nowisn't that ironic?Maverick Records...