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Deals like the one between Chase and Chemical have aggravated concerns about the impact of bank-merger mania on employees and customers. The new giant, which will take the better-known Chase Manhattan name even though Chemical is larger, will hold nearly $300 billion in assets and eclipse its New York City neighbor Citicorp as the largest U.S. banking company. Enthusiastic investors boosted the price of both Chase and Chemical stock more than 10% in a day, expecting the increased efficiency of the combined banks to send profits zooming. But to pare annual expenses by $1.5 billion within three years...
During mild mania, people with the illness are infused with energy and vision. They think faster, more clearly and with greater originality. "I could fly through star fields and slide along the rings of Saturn,'' writes Jamison of her episodes. Were it not for her disease, she says, "I would not have accomplished the same things." Nor, she maintains, would many famed artists...
Signs of trouble were present for Jamison from an early age. The daughter of an Air Force meteorologist and a teacher, she was mercurially moody as a child and became severely depressed as an adolescent. At 16 she felt the first intoxicating high of mild mania. The disease quickly worsened. During her 20s she careened through increasingly florid manias and overlapping depressions. "People usually think of mania and depression existing separately," says Jamison, "but the most dangerous episodes are the ones which combine mania's racing thoughts and impulsivity with depression's despair. That's often when people...
...Microsoft's primary focus right now is the Internet. Gates in April 1994 called an off-site meeting of his top staff to talk about a technology that had been around for 20 years but had suddenly exploded. Gates confessed that the Internet "mania," as he called it, had taken him by surprise. Millions of people were communicating via computers using software standards and application programs that Microsoft had no hand in developing. Gates could even foresee a day when Microsoft's bread-and-butter programs would be cut out of the market because they didn't work well...
...always drawn Americana-loving retirees and teachers planning school trips. But a more recent wave of visitors now seeks out such outre characters as drag queen Lady Chablis, flamboyant chanteuse Emma Kelly and the voodoo priestess Minerva. TIME staff writer Ginia Bellafante says it's all part of the mania inspired by journalist John Berendt's long-running true-crime bestseller, which just passed the one-year mark on The New York Times bestseller list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case. But, Bellafante says, its host of eccentric...