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Thus, 22 years ago, began my cardiac education, which--with another heart attack in 1993 and with the reappearance last spring of the radioactive symptoms--is well along in its postgraduate phase. I share this with you (as they say in group) because the history of my heart's misadventures happens, luckily for me, to parallel the story of the late 20th century's medical advances in the treatment of heart disease. And because at the American Heart Association's meeting last week in Dallas, still more remarkable new treatments were auditioned. I have enjoyed, so far, an existential scissors...
...PHASE BACK FOR PARENTS...
...mothers and fathers at NationsBank, including those who adopt a child, can take up to six months of partial home time after their six weeks of maternity or paternity leave, Poe notes. In this program, employees can "phase back" into their jobs, working more than 20 hours and less than 40 hours, if they want...
...NationsBank vice president Sheila Burroughs, 31, taking advantage of the phase-back program and spending more time with her new baby reduced the stress of jumping back into the work force after an extended maternity leave. She returned to work part time for about a month after her daughter Melissa was born in February 1997, and plans to do the same with her infant Jenna, who was born last month. "I wasn't quite ready physically or emotionally to go right back to work full time," Burroughs says. "You need that extra time to really just enjoy your baby...
...mind. Maybe an hour or two at the World Trade Center's Titanica exhibit will flood you with emotion the same way Kate Winslet did when she sobbed, "I'll never let go." Or maybe it won't. Even if you're long past the Titanic movie phase, this exhibit is still fascinating. Examine jewelry, furnishings, and currency removed from the legendary ship, and then scurry over to the IMAX film Titanica. First showing: 9 a.m.; last showing: 8 p.m. World Trade Center Boston...