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Milt passed away in 1989. We were married for 39 years. He was ill for two years with bladder cancer and then bowel cancer. He was originally given three months to live, and he just would not accept this. He wanted to live. At the very end, I called his pain specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. She said, "I can't help him unless he comes into the hospital." Even after all these years I still cry when I think about it--he wanted life so much that he was willing to go back into the hospital. There just wasn...
...complementary effect may be even more robust in the coffee trade. After Starbucks proved that plenty of customers will pay $4 for a soy-caramel machiatto, many local shops profited from selling equally fancy fare. Michael Thomas, co-owner of the Unicorn Cafe in Evanston, Ill., says that after a Starbucks opened across the street from his place in 1992, the increased customer traffic in the neighborhood helped him post his best year ever; his yearly revenues are up 40% since then. "We always felt guilty about raising prices," he says, "but Starbucks helps us do that from time...
...tune about overcoming your demons that Hill characteristically undersings. The first sign of trouble is the title track, a big, diva-ish song that she strains to pull off. It works because the hook is a winner--"Could you cry a little/Lie just a little"--but Hill seems very ill at ease when she's required to blow away the swirling chorus at the heart of the song...
Another baby-boomer biker is dentist Steven Bobbe, 55, of Melrose Park, Ill. "Driving my car, even for a couple of hours, puts me to sleep," says Bobbe. "But when I'm on my bike, I'm invigorated and can ride for days." Bobbe returned last month from a 2,300-mile round trip to Santa Fe, N.M., driving straight through on the way home...
...Langendries' 15-member commission. While sometimes contradictory and self-serving, their testimony adds up to a devastating indictment of the way Sabena was run. It's the tale of a chronically undercapitalized and uncompetitive company driven to ruin by a flawed expansion policy and an ill-fated alliance with Swissair. And throughout, a passive and heavily politicized board of directors signed off on one strategic blunder after another. Langendries says he doesn't want to pre-empt the commission's official findings, which are due by the end of the year, but one conclusion is indisputable. "There were bizarre goings...