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...boss in a rare pensive mood. It was the spring of 1986 in the West Texas town of Midland, and Dickey, a young geologist at Bush's oil-exploration company, Spectrum 7, had come looking for some optimism--usually a good bet from Bush. After all, Bush was that lean, kinetic, glass-half-full kind of guy who loved edgy verbal sparring and dumb nicknames (he called Dickey "Total Depth," a drilling term that matched his initials). But this time Bush was fresh out of optimism. With his cowboy boots propped up on his desk, he was leaning back...
CALLING ALL GIRLS Though breast cancer is a disease that afflicts adult women, researchers say the risks for developing it start piling up as early as the preteen years. Doctors can't explain why, but they found that girls who are relatively lean at age 10 and those who grow very rapidly during adolescence have a significantly increased risk for the disease. What to do? Not much, but at least make sure your daughter is eating right and exercising...
...Skip the Movies and Rent a Video feature of the week? On a lean Friday for theatrical releases, it's easy: "Instinct." Starring Anthony Hopkins as a homicidal anthropologist in prison for acting like an animal and Cuba Gooding Jr. as his across-the-table Clarice Starling, this is directly targeted at the I-can't-wait-for-Hannibal-the-sequel crowd. Instead, stay home with the fava beans, the Chianti and "Silence of the Lambs." That's one option -- "Manimal" reruns are another -- but for hairy hearts of darkness, why not skip right to "King Kong...
...trappings of adulthood. Perhaps that is why, despite signs of a comeback, Grant still pretends he is not fully committed to acting. "There's the ever increasing prospect of just...stopping," he says. "It would be such bliss." He dreams of taking up writing again. In his lean years he wrote book reviews and comedy sketches; he even worked on a novel. "It was called Slack," he says, "and it was about someone with no job, strangely enough...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataFew expect Greenspan to do anything drastic like actually raise rates; the current guessing game is about which way he'll lean in his inaction. A so-called tightening bias would mean Father Fed has his finger on the rate-hike trigger -? which of course, to the markets' pricked-up ears, will be a strong signal that the Fed is taking inflation seriously again. That itself may be enough to push up rates on the Street, and indeed, such a virtual rate hike may be just what Greenspan has in mind to cool off the economy...