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That ferocious competitive drive has propelled Jordan since his boyhood in Wilmington, N.C., where he grew up the fourth of five children in a close-knit middle-class family. Although his parents James and Deloris pushed education, not sports, Michael developed into an athlete for all seasons, successfully competing in baseball, football and basketball. Larry Jordan, one year his elder, would prove a motivating force. Though Michael eventually outpaced and outgrew Larry, who still plays semipro basketball, he credits his elder brother for his aggressive style of play. "When you see me play," he says, "you see Larry play...
...little harder," a woman named Helen is saying in a fervent voice at that morning's session of foster families. Connecticut has a policy against letting HIV-positive children languish in hospitals or boarding institutions. What it has instead are these 18 foster families, a kind of loose-knit secret society dedicated to giving the children normal lives. Some of them got started as foster parents because they knew the birth mother, or because they came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together for the first time as a group with...
...adolescents to conservative executives. The fastest-growing brand of sportswear in the U.S. is The Limited chain's Outback Red, which sold more than $400 million last year. It began as a collection of Australian-inspired bush-country wear, and now features tamer English staples like jodhpurs and cable-knit sweaters. At Macy's, which sells an estimated 50 house brands, the Aeropostale line evokes the garb of 1920s French mail-plane pilots. The collection includes white silk scarves and rugged corduroy trousers. Macy's also offers a line of casual wear whose name makes a bald appeal to yuppie...
...luxury, not a necessity. Some of Macy's Charter Club has been cut from virtually the same cloth as Ralph Lauren's signature lines. Among Charter Club's recent best sellers: handmade sweaters emblazoned with horses and wine-colored skirts printed with flying birds. While Lauren's hand-knit sweaters can cost $345, a Charter Club counterpart sells for $124. Designers shrug off such imitation as a cost of doing business. Says Louis Dell'Olio, designer for the Anne Klein label: "There isn't a designer on Seventh Avenue whose clothes haven't been knocked off by every store...
Morris, who was known as "RTM" among his close-knit circle of computer friends, developed a reputation as a friendly practical joker who liked to amuse his colleagues...