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Directions: Fly 5 hours West to Reno, rent a car, drive 60 miles to South Lake Tahoe...
Being a father figure for millions is a lonely business. Last year all but six of Bradshaw's weekends were spent on the road. He plays golf with Houston cronies when he can and tries to schedule some seminars in Las Vegas and Reno so he can play the slot machines: he craves the excitement, not the winnings. For nine years he has been involved with a small men's support group in Houston, where he can unburden himself for his own sake, not that of others. "I need a place where I can be real," he says, but adds...
...women's professional behavior, which points to the dangers of generalization on this issue. One rebuttal might come from all the women who have struggled to erase their gender at the office door. "The minute I get in, I become one of the guys," says stand-up comic Reno, who works in comedy clubs. "I've got to take my breasts off and talk from the head up and slap everybody around. I become this desexualized creature so that we can all work together...
Some experts believe anger is a vastly overrated asset. Says Jerry May of the University of Nevada at Reno: "It leads to inconsistent results. Anger can tighten muscles and increase the risk of injury." May, who chairs the U.S. Olympic Sports Psychology Committee, makes an analogy with sex. "To respond optimally, you must be excited but relaxed. You need that feeling to excel in sports as well." St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Tewksbury agrees. "The more I try to have fun and laugh about situations, the better I perform," he says. So far this year, Tewksbury has won nine games...
Some of the repossessed properties are landmarks. Bally has effectively agreed to hand over the keys to its Las Vegas and Reno resorts to a group of creditors. The Westin Canal Place in New Orleans was repossessed by Travelers. The Four Seasons hotel in Austin has been foreclosed by Manufacturers Hanover. The Los Angeles Airport Hilton is in the hands of Security Pacific National Bank. "It is unprecedented what has been going on with hotel foreclosures," says David Renton, who heads a hotel investment firm in Stamford, Conn. "This is the worst crisis for the industry since the Great Depression...