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...jazz enthusiast from England asked if we had any word on Anita O'Day, the singer whose career began in the late 1930s. "She must be in her 70s now, and I wonder if she is still with us. I scan your Milestones, fearing the worst." Not to worry, we told him: O'Day just celebrated her 79th birthday, and she's planning a performance at New York City's Carnegie Hall next July...
...best way to describe Morita's extraordinary drive is to scan his schedule for the two-month period immediately preceding his stroke. He took trips from his home base in Tokyo to New Jersey, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas, Britain, Barcelona and Paris. During that time he met with Queen Elizabeth II, General Electric chief Jack Welch, future French President Jacques Chirac, Isaac Stern and many other politicians, bureaucrats and business associates. He attended two concerts and a movie; took four trips within Japan; appeared at eight receptions; played nine rounds of golf; was guest...
...explosion in ADHD diagnoses and Ritalin use over the past decade, the disorder is surprisingly ill defined. No one is sure that it's a neurochemical imbalance that can be corrected with medicine, much the way daily insulin shots help diabetics. There is no blood test, no PET scan, no physical exam that can determine who has it and who does not. For many children, Ritalin is the answer simply because it works. "It's a fixed, stable, low-dose drug," says Dr. Philip Berent, consulting psychiatrist at the Arlington Center for Attention Deficit Disorder in Arlington Heights...
...office park. This holiday season, computers are packed with such goodies as 333-MHz speed, fat hard drives, plenty of memory, bundled office suites that take you from spreadsheets to word processing to building your own website--all for under $1,000. Rube Goldberg-like contraptions that scan, fax, print and copy, like the Xerox Document WorkCenter 450CP and Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 3100 seen on these pages, stuff these common office duties into compact boxes that easily fit on a shelf and sell for less than $500. And traditional monitors nowadays are coming down in price; they're getting slimmer...
What they worked out was the typical home office: a PC wired to an Internet connection that stays on while she stays home. Sophisticated telephones; the digital equivalents of Swiss Army knives that fax, copy and scan (but don't do your laundry yet); and videoconferencing equipment, like the QuickCam Pro, all fill out the small office/home office (SOHO) market that has become hugely affordable...