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...should bring her something more. In it she drops the fictional cast of her regular strip and writes directly about her life. The results are sad, funny and sometimes shocking. Many of the chapters tell stories from Barry's childhood, and her awkward years make Charlie Brown look like Rico Suave. Among the horrors she endured were hula lessons ("Girls, I'm still seeing wiggly fingers! Move the whole hand!"), an abominable first job selling jewelry for grumpy hippies, and visits to the scary cat lady next door ("Have some peanut brittle, dear. Just pick...
...company showing even a hint of trouble. The latest black-and-blue chip? The respected drug giant Johnson & Johnson, whose stock fell 16% following a report that the company was under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department over alleged manufacturing improprieties in Puerto Rico. The company denied any wrongdoing, but the market did not care. J&J's drop contributed 55 points to the Dow's Friday freak-out, and the company joins Merck & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb (which face sales-accounting questions) under investors' microscope...
...what places she has been--learning to fly at 17 on a small grass strip in East Stroudsburg, Pa., moving to fly for Shamrock Airlines in Puerto Rico in 1972 because no U.S. airline would hire a female pilot, and in 1978 becoming the first woman pilot hired by Trans World Airlines, then the most glamorous airline going. (Her dad worked there as a pilot. Her mom was a housewife.) Lee was hired by United Parcel Service in 1985 to help expand its air-shipping fleet, and is now the first woman to oversee the company's 2,527 pilots...
...RETIRED. FELIX TRINIDAD, 29, from boxing, ending a career in which he won three titles in three weight classes; in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Trinidad lost the only fight of his 42-bout career to American Bernard Hopkins last September, and it's believed Hopkins' refusal to grant Trinidad a rematch led to his decision to quit...
...third star this year." Pressure Cooking michelin giveth, and michelin taketh away. The loss of a star can be devastating. "I've got a friend who lost his [third star] two years ago, and he still hasn't got over it," says food critic Périco Légasse. "He's still on tranquilizers in a state of depression." At least he's alive. French chef Alain Zick killed himself after losing a star in 1966. The pressure on top chefs can be intense. After the third star is won, business booms, the phone rings constantly with people trying...