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...much stress. Our children, especially, are scheduled down to every minute of their day. I am concerned about Americans' pill-taking mentality. But the magic bullet for hypertension is not in a bottle; it's a healthy lifestyle. How about making the right foods more affordable? Lisa A. Lee Rancho Santa Margarita, California, U.S. Revising the Record As much as I am happy that Bertelsmann's CEO Gunter Thielen was included in TIME's list of the 25 most influential people in business today [Dec. 20], I am sorry to see that certain facts in the accompanying article were incorrect...
LISA A. LEE Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif...
Shoppers Venturing into the new supersize Sears Grand concept store in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., off the old Route 66, can be forgiven for double-checking the name on the façade. Perhaps it's the barbecue grills on sale outside the entrance, an echo of Home Depot's parking-lot bonanzas, or the reams of DVDs, CDs and books that make you think you've stumbled into Wal-Mart. Maybe it's the colorful signs hanging from the industrial, sky-high ceiling, festooned with cheeky slogans like IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT, which remind one of the king...
DIED. RAY BOONE, 81, patriarch of the only family to have three generations of baseball All-Stars; of complications from intestinal surgery; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. An infielder who played for 13 years, mostly with the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers, Boone is better known as the father of catcher Bob Boone and the grandfather of infielders Bret Boone and Aaron Boone...
Spokane is by no means the only project of its kind. It's easy to imagine that by the end of the decade most U.S. cities will exist beneath an invisible dome of wi-fi--"city clouds," in the jargon of the industry. Rio Rancho, N.M., has one, though not on the scale of Spokane's; ditto for Grand Haven, Mich. (see sidebar), as well as Lafayette, Louis and Cerritos in California. And bigger players are moving in all the time. Cook County, Ill., is planning a massive 940-sq.-mi. cloud that would light up all of Chicago. Philadelphia...