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Although budget tightening has forced many companies to cut back health-care and other job benefits, some firms find they have to offer ever more inventive perks to attract and retain the best employees. They're serving up everything from free food and on-site dry cleaning to discounted pet insurance and medical coverage for aging parents. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...upshot is that older men are running day-care centers, word-processing firms and pet businesses and senior women are operating farming companies, residential-construction firms and plumbing outfits. Ellen Freudenheim, author of Looking Forward: An Optimist's Guide to Retirement, attributes many of the reversals to what she calls gender envy. "Women want the power that the men have, and men want to experience the better interpersonal relationships that females have," says Freudenheim...
...stood and sat and lay down in a 100-yard-long trash-strewn column. Many had only the clothes on their backs. Some had a bit of money stashed away in pockets, shoes and handbags or a few vital medications. Others had braved the rising waters with a beloved pet. A green parakeet chirped in a white cage on the tarmac. A lanky woman stood next to two cat carriers with her teenage son. Several dogs nosed through the debris, their leashes dragging on the ground behind them...
...future, however, may belong to whoever can figure out how to make all these imaging technologies work together. One approach combines the anatomical accuracy of CT imaging with the functional information provided by a type of nuclear scan called positron-emission tomography (PET). Still in its early days in the clinic, PET/CT could help doctors see how much of the cardiac muscle is still alive after a heart attack and whether a bypass operation, balloon angioplasty or stent surgery would help damaged areas recover...
...help pet owners. Cloning Snuppy (the name comes from "Seoul National University puppy") took nearly three years and cost millions of dollars. Hwang's ultimate motive, he says, is to create a research model for making stem cells that could cure disease in people. "Compared with rodents," he says, dog cells "are more similar to human stem cells." GS&C still wants to capture the Fido-cloning market, though, and company scientists are trying to reduce the inefficiencies. Even if they manage to clone a dog, says Ben Carlson, a company spokesman, it won't be cheap. "We're charging...