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...mother, who had just been found to be suffering from macular degeneration, an incurable deterioration of the central portion of the retina that is the leading cause of blindness in people 60 and older. "Your face is just a brown smear," Coppens told her daughter. "I guess I'll never see your face again...
...been reissued after selling out its initial limited-edition run of 1 million copies. Chris Blackwell, head of the multimedia-entertainment company Palm Pictures and the man who signed Marley to Island Records, says Marley's lasting appeal is rooted in his approach to music. "His music was never overexposed at the time he was making it," says Blackwell. "He always maintained an underground feel, and so each new listener has that sense of discovery. That's what keeps him on the edge. That and the fact it's incredible music...
...wisdom and fire of the Old Testament--he drew from it all, creating reggae music, rebel psalms, that rang with poetry and prophecy. Romance, for him, was not incompatible with revolution; bullets and ballads were both the stuff of his work. He envisioned a world beyond this one but never lost sight of the horrors and joys of the here and now. "If you know what life is worth," he sang, "you will look for yours on earth...
...brass at Fidelity will cry foul, as may the entire mutual-fund industry, which is in sore need of a new superstar. But here goes, anyway: Give it up, Peter Lynch. This stuff about never having worked on a computer and wanting little to do with technology stocks is stale. Very stale. You've got good company in Warren Buffett, another totemic technophobe. And I'm not saying to load up exclusively on tech stocks. But it's plain silly to encourage plain folks to avoid them. They're not that difficult to understand. If you can figure out Maytag...
Like a lot of folks, Levy had never heard of macular degeneration. Unlike most, she was in a position to do something about it. One of the co-founders of a biotech company called QLT PhotoTherapeutics, Levy worked with David Dolphin of the University of British Columbia to develop Visudyne, a drug that uses light rays to combat the severest form of the disease. Although their research couldn't help Levy's mother, who died in 1996, it has passed muster with a scientific advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Last week the panel recommended that...