Word: simons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nine years in Washington (four as bureau chief), is moving to New York City for a stint as assistant managing editor of MONEY magazine. During Goodgame's tenure, he and Duffy were nearly inseparable. They collaborated on a book--Marching in Place: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush (Simon & Schuster; 1992). Duffy learned from Goodgame how to play poker; Goodgame named his third son Michael. "Duffy is a hell of a lot of fun--always working the phones, yelling, laughing and scooping up great tips," says Goodgame. "He has a rare combination of Midwestern roots and Washington savvy...
...Simon Tucker, the attraction to digging began at age 3, as he watched Sesame Street character Bob's Uncle searching for a golden cabbage in Snuffleupagus' cave. Then Simon discovered Indiana Jones, and so began his mantra: "I want to be an archaeologist...
...shows his muse is still very much with him." BOOKS . . . THE GOOD BROTHER: "Chris Offutt is a prize-winning short-story writer ('Kentucky Straight'), and in his tough, funny, sometimes brilliantly written first novel, he can't quite shake the habit," says TIME's John Skow. 'The Good Brother' (Simon & Schuster; 317 pages; $23) could not be simpler or more direct in its narrative plan: a good man, Virgil Caudill, caught in a crushing predicament not of his making, commits a murder that seems unavoidable, abandons his home in the Kentucky hill country and survives precariously in Montana. The pages...
After a decade of grim headlines about spiraling hospital bills and shifty HMOs, the boom in self-medication comes as no surprise. "People are fed up with the high costs and side effects of drugs," says Earl Mindell, a registered pharmacist and author of Secret Remedies (Simon & Schuster, 1997), a new study of the self-care movement. "We're doubling our knowledge about nutrition every 18 months. So people wonder, instead of treating the symptoms as we've always been taught, why not help your body fight off the problem in the first place...
...What television did to American young families is, it stopped them to read," he says in his broken second tongue. "It took the books out of kids' hands. I think we can make kids curious and get them to read again. I know I'm right because after Gulliver Simon & Schuster said the books were selling like crazy...