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...Napster, we can once again listen to the music we already have on vinyl. We haven't downloaded anything we don't already own on vinyl or tape. Napster has saved us a lot of time and effort in switching to the new technology. MARSHALL AND KATHY LANDIS Baltimore, Md...
...Phoenix, Ariz., who hired a coach at a friend's urging, credits coaching with turning her life around. Melvin, 46 and single, has lost 40 lbs., joined a dating service and is better organized on the job. "My coach holds me accountable," she says. Ann Somerset of Gaithersburg, Md., claims the clarity she gained from her coach enabled her to win a squeaker race for city council last year. He even helped her choose outfits...
...affordable than it may appear, since a second wage earner's job is accompanied by costs such as child care, transportation, restaurant meals, work clothes, cleaning bills and a higher income- tax bracket. Sheila Grillo, 34, a former sales rep who stays home with her three children in Bowie, Md., learned to use coupons, buy on sale and scale back. "Over the years my whole mind-set changed about material things," she says...
...UrbanAmerica has acquired $110 million worth of commercial property, including a shopping mall in Opa Locka, Fla., and medical offices in Las Vegas. The company finds creative ways to bolster communities--and thus protect investments. At Eastover Shopping Center in Oxon Hill, Md., UrbanAmerica is even building a 22,000-sq.-ft. police precinct to make the neighborhood safer and enhance property values...
This week's lead education story, for example, is written by Andrew Goldstein, who knows a bit about class cutups and brawlers from his days as a teacher and dean of students at a private school in New Jersey. Andrew's story examines an innovative Baltimore, Md., program that takes disruptive students out of the middle schools and sends them to a boarding school in Kenya, where many have turned their life around. The idea for this story came from deputy picture editor Hillary Raskin, who picked it up from photographer Radhika Chalasani, who had followed students to Kenya...