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...proposed Aetna Inc. will undoubtedly play a leading role in determining which perception prevails. For staid and paternalistic Aetna, a longstanding leader in traditional indemnity plans (you pick the doctors; they pick up the bills), the consolidation catapults the 143-year-old company smack into the center of the brave new world of managed care, where consumers must choose from a company-approved network of doctors, who agree to fixed charges for most services. Or consumers can join health-maintenance organizations, which directly employ doctors and nurses. "We are going into the managed-care business because that's what people...
...June. "One day I sat down and thought of all the celebrities who had been arrested. I came up with 500 without really trying," he says. After two years of research, he had 50 photos. The insights from such a noble enterprise? "Celebrities look alike," he says. "And they smack around their wives and girlfriends a lot." MIKE AND SPIKE...
...succeeding," says Aurelio ("Lio") Maldonado, a Chicago bill collector. He, his wife Rita, a legal secretary, son Adrian, 6, and daughter Clarissa, 5 months, make up the classic family of four, and their income of $44,000--a bit more than half earned by Rita--is smack in the middle nationally. Their three-bedroom home in the Westlawn neighborhood is comfortable, but the $860 monthly mortgage payments and $300 a month owed on the family's 1992 Firebird eat up about a third of their earnings. The couple would like to keep Adrian in the Roman Catholic school system...
...small circle of intimates. Named Germany's war-production czar in 1942, Speer ran the munitions factories where hundreds of thousands of slave laborers died of overwork and malnutrition. To many skeptics, his protestations at Nuremberg and in his best-selling memoirs (Inside the Third Reich, The Secret Diaries) smack of deep denial and cover...
...Benedict's pass out to the edge of the arc rolled past the Crimson players stationed there--players chosen only by their ability to smack balls from Ithaca to Syracuse. Several of those happened to be backs...