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That and the kind of homespun frugality on display at Medsprout.com a New York start-up that provides online information for doctors. Directions to the half-finished office are scrawled on sheets of paper taped to the elevator bank. The conference room is also the bottled-water room. The CEO shares his office."I took a salary cut last week because of the funding situation," boasts Erin Meek, a former consultant. "But it doesn't bother me because of the experience I'm getting...
...childhood was spent in Canada, first in Toronto, then in the small Ontario mining town of Timmins. For a while his father worked for a pinball and slot-machine supplier. In a later job he won awards for window display and made homespun artworks. When he died, Gehry's mother went to work for a Los Angeles department store and rose to be head of the drapery department, where she did domestic interiors. "So the creative genes were there," Gehry says. "But my father thought I was a dreamer, I wasn't gonna amount to anything. It was my mother...
...iMovie is the do-it-yourself video-editing program that comes bundled with Apple's high-end iMac DV. Since Steve Jobs decided, not unreasonably, that home digital video is going to be as big as desktop publishing, Apple has been cramming its website and its TV ads with homespun iMovies from kids and such celebs as John Cleese and Gregory Hines. All rave about how easy the software's editing process is. They're mostly right. Your footage, when you download it from the camera, arrives presliced in bite-size clips based on where you started and stopped filming...
...through Sept. 2 are Susan Klein, renowned for her vivid reminiscences of growing up on Martha's Vineyard in the '50s; Diane Ferlatte, whose multicultural repertoire includes folklore from Africa and the American South; and Donald Davis, who immortalizes friends and neighbors from his Appalachian boyhood with homespun humor...
...impetus for change comes from small groups of homespun activists. In suburban Pittsburgh, Pa., Gigi Kelly, a nurse and mother, was inspired to begin a local campaign after a healthy 8-lb. baby boy was left in a trash bag behind her family's church. Kelly found an old laundry basket, lined it with a warm blanket and put it on her front porch. Then she called reporters with a plea for young mothers to bring their babies to her. I'll take it from there, she promised. Nobody has taken up her offer yet, but still she waits...