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...around the time that greed got dropped from the list of the Seven Deadly Sins, the informal first-wives club gave way to a marketplace ethic. In magazines, books and movies, a new trophy wife was viewed as one more perk for the corporate shark, career-enhancing proof that his manly takeover skills weren't limited to the boardroom. After all, wife No. 1 was old-think, a mom-and-pop store in an age of mergers and acquisitions. Wife No. 2 by lavishly spreading the shark's money around to hospital and museum boards, was soon lionized...
...research arena, patients and their families remain in a dispiriting limbo. At present, physicians acknowledge, the best that medicine can do is keep the disease's sufferers--like former President Ronald Reagan--functioning at higher levels for longer periods of time. Many Alzheimer's patients, for example, perk up when they are given antidepressant drugs. They also become less agitated when placed in a structured, stress-free environment. And sometimes--though not always--their intellectual performance can be enhanced by a particular drug that increases levels of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that is critical to the retrieval of memories...
...industry will surely perk up with the arrival of new novels from the likes of Michael Crichton, Scott Turow, John le Carre and Tom Clancy (see box). But rival publishers are probably not happy knowing that within a month there will be two more Stephen King books on the market. In another bit of publishing gimmickry, both novels--which share the same cast of characters in skewed, slightly different roles--will be published the same day, Sept. 24. One is Desperation (Viking; 688 pages; $27.95). The other is The Regulators, written under King's occasional nom de plume, Richard Bachman...
...leading 13% share of the U.S. fund industry. Late last year Vinik drew the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission for publicly touting computer maker Micron Technology while Magellan quietly unloaded its Micron shares. This year Fidelity shuffled no fewer than 26 fund managers in March to perk up the funds' performance...
...chairman. Walesa claims he needs to return to work because presidents are not provided with pensions under current Polish law. "I'm without money for living, and it's necessary for me to work," he said after arriving at the shipyard in a state-owned chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled to as a former president. But Walesa won't be punching a clock for long. He will take an unpaid leave next week to go an a U.S. lecture tour. "This is such a cabaret," says TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski from Warsaw. "He's just trying...