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...just $1.99.) What customers are paying for is not only costly ingredients like French lavender oil and fancy packaging but also some fairly sophisticated chemistry. Combining aromatic oils with cleaning agents is not so easy to do, explains Avery Gilbert, president of Synesthetics Inc., a firm based in Montclair, N.J., that provides consultations to the fragrance industry. "The soap base has chemical properties that tend to kind of tear apart the fragrance oils and make them go flat or not smell so good after a while," he says. This may explain why mass-market products such as Procter & Gamble...
...survived by three daughters—Abigail of Montclair, N.J., Nina of Lemont, Pa. and Elizabeth of Portland, Ore.—several siblings in Israel, two grandchildren and ex-wife Anita Safran...
DIED. LARRY DOBY, 79, Hall of Fame slugger who became the first African American in the American League--just 11 weeks after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier by joining the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers; in Montclair, N.J. In a 13-year career spent mostly with the Cleveland Indians, the star center fielder never lost his cool despite segregated conditions and rejection by some of his teammates. "The Bible ... says you should forgive and forget," he observed in 1999. "Well, you might forgive. But boy, it's tough to forget...
...increasingly fragmented and disconnected society, dogs are often treated as family members and human surrogates. A growing number of people, according to Katz, say they get more support from their dogs than their spouses or parents. The author zooms in on 12 dog-human relationships in Montclair, N.J., a prosperous community with a large canine population. In Montclair, pet-human bonds take on a variety of forms: a twice-divorced wife puts her dachshund puppy in diapers; a woman with breast cancer, left by her husband, depends on her corgi for solace; a teenager who has been abandoned...
...have. Plus, he says, "doctors give orders and plan someone's care, but it's the nurses who actually make them better." While his frat brothers scrambled for scarce jobs in finance and technology, Strumph had three offers before he graduated in 2001. With extra shifts at his Montclair, N.J., hospital, he earns $90,000 a year...