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What presidential candidate are you rooting for? -Sloan Mills, Leitchfield, Ky.Barack Obama. He is a friend and I have fundraised...
...around here for 150 years," jokes Peren, who hails from such quintessentially Kiwi stock--as New Zealanders would call it--that his grandfather even had a breed of sheep named after him. Peren launched the Peregrine Wines label in 1998 in partnership with oenophile oncologist Murray Brennan of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. (Brennan visits for vacations.) Peren's connection with the land that Peregrine has under vine comes through his wife's grandfather, who won a small plot in a card game. The Peren family also has a single-vineyard Pinot Noir called Two Sisters...
...bond with co-workers. But the world of work has changed quite a bit during the past 80 years. The idea that the power of the group comes primarily from the group itself is as outdated as the rotary dial, according to Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and Henrik Bresman, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, who have written a book, X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed...
...upstart in Cambridge, Mass., wants to make it easier to receive packages at home. IdentiCert has developed a modular, electronic storage box system that can be installed in any apartment or condominium complex. Invented by three recent graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and funded by private investors, the easyQube kiosk is modeled after low-tech oversized mailboxes secured by key that have long been used in Germany, the Netherlands and other European countries. EasyQubes, on the other hand, open with an electronic swipe card, and recipients are notified via email when their package...
...more thorough aftercare screening is already helping survivors who are wrestling with a lot of unknowns about their health. "In my head, I had been expecting to have all the problems you read about--the heart problems, secondary cancers--all that stuff," says Dyer. But a recent evaluation at Sloan-Kettering indicated that Dyer so far shows no signs of the complications she had dreaded. "It was a huge relief," she says. So this Aug. 27, she will celebrate another year of being not only cancer-free but also healthy. Three years ago, to honor a decade of cancer liberation...