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...where did the idea come from? Well, Fred Schoch, executive director for the Head Of The Charles, decided that he wanted to bring together the international rowing medalists from the Beijing Olympics, according to HOCR international liaison Bradway Widing, who lingered outside Bartley's to ensure that the rowers' lunch proceeded smoothly. The result: The Great Eight...
Despite all these odds, Akris (an acronym from the name of the above-mentioned grandmother, Alice Kriemler-Schoch), based in the Swiss town of St. Gallen, has elegant women across North America praising its elusive balance of style, fit and quality. Women tend to discover Akris for themselves. Nicole Kidman spotted a coat in a store window on a Sunday evening and ordered it the following morning. Other fans include Susan Sarandon and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
...Alice Kriemler-Schoch could never have imagined that her grandson would one day show on the official Paris fashion-week schedule (the first Swiss designer invited to do so) or that in starting her little apron business for something to do while she raised two sons, she was founding a dynasty. After the death of her husband in 1944, the business passed to their eldest son Max Kriemler. In 1980, Max's eldest son Albert, then 20, was about to move to Paris when his father's right-hand man died suddenly, and Albert stepped in. Seven years later, after...
...People should not stop at the recommendations to stock up with food and water," says Monica Schoch-Spana, senior associate at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Biosecurity. "Individuals should be calling the hospitals that they rely on and asking them, do you have a pandemic flu contingency plan in place? People need to start putting more pressure on the institutions that we rely on to protect...
...Quarantines worked to control the SARS epidemic because SARS is much less contagious than flu and has a longer incubation period.) That doesn't mean we won't have quarantines. "Politicians will be under a lot of pressure to demonstrate that they are doing something," says Monica Schoch-Spana, a medical anthropologist at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh...