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...billion Amount UPS raised in its IPO last week, largest in history...
Because of severe coronary-artery blockage, I have had two heart attacks, two multiple-coronary-bypass operations (1976 and 1993) and a couple of angioplasties (1998). Last year, when I began having symptoms again, my choices--with further bypass impossible--were 1) to treat the trouble with continued medication (beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, aspirin, furosemide and so on), hoping, further down the line, for a heart transplant; or 2) to try to sign up for one of the new, experimental operations (gene therapy or laser therapy) designed to encourage the growth of new blood vessels in the heart...
...Legislators in several cities, angered by rising ATM fees, have simply outlawed them. But last week the banks struck back. Wells Fargo and Bank of America began barring noncustomers from using their ATMs in Santa Monica, Calif., after the city council banned surcharges. San Francisco residents may soon be facing the same fate. "The banks have a right to earn a return on their investment," argues Joseph Morford, a banking analyst for Dain Rauscher Wessels in San Francisco. The machines cost up to $50,000 each. But consumers now appear to be lowering their own costs by cutting back...
...Last confession: I'm as eager to pretend understanding of a hot fad as any journalist. And I do like things kids like; this summer I read all three Harry Potter books, aloud and enthralled, to my wife. So I'm no grinch. Honest. I'm just a guy who loves good cartoons and, when he sees a bad one, gets a little...bit ...UPSET...
Black folks who know Jackie Goetter, president of the school board in Decatur, Ill., insist that she's no bigot. But when she lashed out at Jesse Jackson last week for inserting himself into a local tempest over the expulsion of seven high school students for fighting, she sounded a bit like one--the late Leander Perez. "I really resent outsiders coming in and telling us how to run our schools," Goetter whined, conjuring up memories of the legendary segregationist's threat to bury "outside agitators" in the bayous of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish during the 1960s...