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...love affairs go, the union of Marshall Gardiner and J'Noel Ball seemed familiar in its contours. He was a lively 85-year-old widower and former Kansas state legislator who made a pile in the stock market. She was half his age, an assistant professor of finance at his alma mater, Park College. Four months after they met they...
Everyone who witnessed the devastation, in person or on television, became, in his or her own way, a survivor. Each of us will live out the rest of our lives with the terrible memory. Someone came into my living room and has killed a part of me. NOEL MONTRUCCHIO Ghent, Belgium...
...advance, are in good shape. Not so the short-cycle divisions, such as appliances and lighting. Many observers expect Immelt to get out of the cutthroat business of selling dishwashers and refrigerators, which Welch was unable to do. Still, "having a few consumer brands is worth something," says Noel Tichy, a University of Michigan management professor who ran GE's famed Crotonville executive-training center in the mid-1980s. Immelt wants to quicken the pace of innovation at GE, and a year-old R.-and-D. center in India--along with China, the key global market he'll have...
...Susan Sontag who observed, in her famously acute essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" that "the sensibility of high culture has no monopoly upon refinement... The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure." (Or, as Amanda says in Noel Coward's Private Lives, "Extraordinary, how potent cheap music is.") All the same, American culture moves so readily to legitimize the latest enthusiasms of mass taste--snowboarding! game shows! Irish step dancing!--that it always seems in danger of overwhelming art that demands quieter attention. The devilishly effective machinery of American pop culture turns our attention constantly...
...offered massages and yoga during recovery. At Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, cardiac doctors suggest that their patients enroll in the hospital's Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, which offers yoga, among other therapies. "While we haven't tested yoga as a stand-alone therapy," says Dr. Noel Bairey Merz, the center's director, patients opting for yoga do show "tremendous benefits." These include lower cholesterol levels and blood pressure, increased cardiovascular circulation and, as the Ornish study showed, reversal of artery blockage in some cases...