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Jancy Chang was a talented artist and teacher, and only in her 40s, when the symptoms of dementia began to appear. She had a rare form of progressive aphasia that would sap her language skills and force her to retire from teaching at 52. But even as she was losing the ability to make lesson plans, grade homework or remember the names of her students, her artistic vision seemed to be expanding (see right). "Her painting became wilder and freer and more original as her language declined," says Dr. Bruce Miller, a neurologist at the University of California...
...past couple of years, IBM has rounded out its software portfolio, leaving the applications side of the business to specialists like J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel and focusing instead on the "middleware" market that glues those business applications together. With the savvy leadership of software chief Steve Mills, IBM's database and application server product WebSphere has gained market share, even winning a key, much contested contract with eBay. J.D. Edwards, an enterprise software company focused on the fast-growing market among medium-size businesses (those with 100 to 1,000 employees), recently decided to standardize all its applications...
...attack. Though Pyongyang has made gestures suggesting it was ready to make concessions in exchange for aid and security guarantees, neither Kim Il Sung nor his son gave up the raw material for bombmaking or renounced the desire to obtain the Bomb; in their mind, doing so would sap the country's bargaining strength and make the regime's survival dependent on its neighbors' goodwill...
...adapted movies: Hairspray (John Waters' movie about early-'60s Baltimore), The Graduate, Marty, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? It even got choreographer Twyla Tharp, for Movin' Out, to become the first person to hold the phrases Billy Joel and dance number in her head simultaneously since whatever poor sap directed the video for Uptown Girl. In all, the best way to get onstage was by having been a movie or a pop song. Being theatrical helped, but being theater didn...
...have faded as the scale of the government's challenge has become clear. But the early setbacks have not deterred companies from setting up shop in or near Washington to get closer to the action. In the past year, Raytheon and EMC launched a joint government IT unit, and SAP relocated its global public-sector headquarters to the Washington area. And PeopleSoft launched two new products designed for the Homeland Security market...