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Ralph L. Mosher, 70, died of Parkinson's disease on Oct. 9 at the Stone Institute, a nursing home in Newton...
Some employers fall victim to an electronic version of Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the digitized time available for its completion. In many graphics departments, says New York consultant Reppen, employees use their computers to try so many different images that "they spend more and more money to get things done at the last minute." And, of course, employees often spend some of their work time idly surfing the Net or playing games. Clifford Stoll, an astronomer and systems manager in California and author of Silicon Snake Oil, draws this analogy: "Suppose a business said everyone...
Perhaps more fateful, an actuarial deadline looms. As the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin has shown, personalities count in making peace. Today, many Middle East leaders are old or ailing. Arafat, 69, reportedly has Parkinson's disease; Jordan's King Hussein is ill with cancer; Saudi Arabia's King Fahd is enfeebled; and Syria's Hafez Assad, 68, has heart trouble. Princes are set to take over Saudi Arabia and Jordan, but Syria and the Palestinians have no successors. Whoever they are, the concern is that the next generation may not be nimble or strong enough to keep the peace...
...Jaime Cardinal Ortega. We heard then the voice of the Pope. Not very expressive, but the Spanish he spoke was well turned and clearly enunciated. In a matter of seconds he communicated his special, penetrating, transcendent warmth. Close-up we could see the ravages of his apparent affliction (Parkinson's), his age (77) and his gun wound (1981). The cumulative result of it all is a stoop and the listless expression on his face--the hangdog look. But then intermittently the great light within flashes, and one sees the most radiant face on the public scene, a presence so commanding...
...game show hosts, displaying super-human endurance with his 26 year stint on "The Price is Right." Fast approaching 80 years of age, Barker, who spends rerun seasons in a giant jar of formaldehyde, has also persevered through a publicity nightmare stemming from an affair with show model Dian Parkinson...