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...California design shops do seem blessedly free of the factory-like organization that prevails in Detroit and elsewhere. Designer Alberto Palma, 27, interned at General Motors in Detroit before coming to work for Toyota in Newport Beach. He found the GM experience "kind of stuffy. Everyone was divided into units for different aspects of design. Here we can sit down and talk about a project from ground up." Jack Stavana, Mazda's director of product planning and research who masterminded the marketing of the Miata, agrees. "Frankly," says Stavana, who worked for Chrysler for five years, "I needed...
When Swatch introduced a limited edition of watches styled like cucumbers, red chilis, and bacon with eggs, the first 5,250 sent to the U.S. were gobbled up at once. While most plastic Swatches sell for around $45, these retail at eight trendy food emporiums from Newport, R.I., to Seattle for $100. But will these tasteful timepieces by Pop painter Alfred Hofkunst appreciate like the graffiti-inspired ones from Keith Haring, offered in 1986 for $50 and now fetching...
...Rich Jews" operating in Seville and Lisbon and Hamburg and Newport, R.I., and other cities financed the African slave trade...
...Friday, it finally dawned even on the White House that the U.S. had a moral responsibility to do much more -- and quickly. From Newport Beach, Calif., en route to Los Angeles to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the USO, Bush ordered American planes to air-drop food, blankets, clothing and other relief supplies to refugees suffering in the border mountains. He promised up to $10 million in emergency aid to the refugees. And he called for a major international effort to keep the Kurds from starving and dying while someone figures out what to do with them...
...case currently before the Supreme Court, Sharon Russell, a 335-lb. nursing student at Salve Regina College in Newport, R.I., was thrown out of school because she failed to lose 2 lbs. a week. Now a nurse in Florida, Russell, 26, sued Salve Regina and won a $44,000 jury verdict. But the school appealed, arguing that her obesity kept Russell, an A student, from completing her clinical requirements. Says Salve Regina's lawyer Steven Snow: "There are certain physical requirements you have to fulfill to be a nurse. I don't know of any blind people who are nurses...