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...Paula Romero, 29, was born in Spain, has an English husband and lives in Brussels, where she is pursuing an arts degree at a Belgian university. "A true European is someone who doesn't feel his or her culture is the only thing in town," she says. "Just one culture is not enough these days." Catherine Rubbens, 34, an environmental consultant in London who left the Netherlands after high school, speaks five European languages and says she feels more European than Dutch. "I notice as I start to adjust somewhere that I speak to myself in the language of that...
...TUCK Oscar hasn't changed much in 70 years, so here are some designers' ideas for possible face-lifts. Alessandro Mendini and Alessi offer a female Oscar, far left, that looks more like a transsexual corkscrew. Paula Scher designed a giant letter O, left, which also works nicely as a paperweight. Industrial Light + Magic whipped up Floating Oscar, far right, which suggests movie magic but could prove too ethereal for any teary actress wanting to clasp it to her bosom. Peter Arnell imagines Oscar as a constellation, above, and would carve out an actual constellation in the shape...
...incredibly honored by this nomination, especially in the company of such highly esteemed magazines," said Paula Byron, an editor of the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin...
Automating a telephone transaction can save lots of dough--as much as 75% off the $5-to-$15 cost of dealing with each call. But, as Paula Skokowski, vice president of marketing at voice-solutions-provider General Magic, notes, "You never see the savings, because everyone is pressing zero-pound" to get to a human. By integrating these newfangled, intelligent virtual-call centers with the rest of a company's Net infrastructure, and then hosting them on their own networks, Tellme, BeVocal and other application service providers hope to make effective customer self-service a reality. One example...
...meantime, don't be discouraged by the long waits from scheduling your own mammogram. Avoid calling in October, since that is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and many women, responding to the publicity, call for exams at that time. Remember, persistence often pays off. After a week of telephone entreaties, Paula Sperling spent the day camped out at N.Y.U.'s mammography center. Eventually an office manager took pity on her and squeezed her into a slot five weeks later. Says Sperling: "I'm already talking to them about an appointment for next year...