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...made of dollar bills. In keeping with that notion, tony Florida clothier Maus & Hoffman is offering as gift wrap uncut sheets of 32 $1 bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money. They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame them or roll them up for storage in the family safe. Of course, says owner Bill Maus, "some customers simply cut them...
...Deco triumphal arch with gargantuan caryatids. In Cincinnati, on the facade of an office building, he simulated a Piranesian cutaway of a coffered Roman temple. His latest creation, on a lobby wall in Boston, is a lyrical evocation of a 19th century crystal pavilion, complete with painted palm trees and an image of tumbling water that blurs into a real fountain...
...disease. Like other oils, canola boasts a long shelf life, has the ability to remain odorless at high frying temperatures and averages 120 calories per tablespoon. But canola's biggest attraction is its scant, 6% level of saturated fat, in contrast to 14% in olive oil and 51% in palm oil. Canola also contains high levels of monounsaturated fat. For a number of years, consuming that substance was thought to reduce the "bad" type of cholesterol in the blood known as LDL (low-density lipoprotein). Recent studies suggest, however, that monounsaturated fat has no special power but is valuable...
Shortly after he took over as chairman of Delaware-based E.I. Du Pont de Nemours two years ago, Edgar Woolard called a meeting of his company's 325 top managers at Palm Beach, Fla. Looking out at a roomful of white men, peppered with fewer than a dozen women and minorities, the new boss delivered a stunning ultimatum. The next time Du Pont's managers gathered, Woolard said, he'd better see significantly more women and minorities in the room. Last March, when Woolard and 390 executives attended the company's leadership conference in Chantilly, Va., 25% of those present...
With the Crimson clinging to a 10-7 lead in the second quarter, it was Gordian's turn again. This time, he was the one who broke free into the backfield and managed to deflect Lutz's kick with his left palm off to the sideline, where the ball settled at the Princeton 11-yard line...