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Pepper, who is a Corporation board member and whose company has a $30 billion product line, including household and cleaning products, expressed enthusiasm in the idea, Patel told the Daily News...

Author: By Yale News, | Title: The Ivy Roundup | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...When nonwealthy couples divorce, the assets are generally divided equally, according to Michael Ostrow, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. But for the wealthy--unless you're in a 50-50 community-property state--when love fades, the wife's value is inversely calculated: the richer the household, the less, proportionally, she gets. One such wife, Lorna Wendt, 53, has decided to fight that principle. She returns to court in Stamford, Connecticut, this week, having turned down a $10 million offer from her husband Gary Wendt, 54, the chief executive of General Electric's GE Capital. "I view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVORCE, CORPORATE-STYLE | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...doing with his life. Now he's a Vermonter, ski instructing by day and acting, directing and producing by night, playing out an undergraduate passion for theater initiated in a Dunster House student production. He reveals that though he earns a fraction of what he once did, household management, his wife's income and New England pleasantries make up the difference...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Slopes and Ladders | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

...show season after season for years should not be vulnerable to sudden disruption from outside the screen. I have plenty of friends who grew up with single parents--or double parents who didn't much like each other--for whom Bill Cosby's intact, warm TV household was a crucial refuge. Now it's gone. And no matter how the current story evolves, those reruns will be difficult to watch, those comforting memories tainted if not spoiled. When Ricky Nelson, America's TV son, died in a mysterious plane crash, rumors swirled that the child actor turned rock star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SITUATION TRAGEDY | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...sensory devices so that they can crawl into pipes to track vermin or, in a more heroic endeavor, be sent into earthquake rubble to locate survivors. Sewage inspection should suit them just fine: cockroaches are scavengers that eat their own. A spokesman for Combat Insect Control Systems, which makes household insecticides, says there is no shortage of roaches for such duties (more than 3,500 species exist), "but it will probably be hard to get the cameras back. Cockroaches don't like to be around people in commotion. And they generally die on their backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 27, 1997 | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

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