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...more elaborate than a note dashed off to loved ones from a deathbed, an ethical will, sometimes called a personal legacy, is proving especially popular among baby boomers as they begin contemplating their mortality in earnest. A mini-industry has sprung up to help those seeking a bit of emotional immortality. Fancy binders with silk-moire linings and archival paper are now available. How-to workshops abound, as do websites and consultants who will preserve the bequest on videotape...
...more than DB pays. Raith and others have complained to the nation's cartel office. Following the tracks laid down by pioneers like Rail4Chem, more than 20 such private operators now run freight services - and some local passenger trains - in Germany, and other companies have sprung up to provide them with services. Included is a company based in Mannheim called MEV which rents out drivers and train personnel - some of whom have been trained to operate in more than one country. Since it started in 1999, MEV's staff has grown from 50 people to 250, and sales have tripled...
...with thinner tires, which means the ride gets bumpier, the braking distance increases and the turning radius is diminished. "Instead of making a three-point turn, you might have to do a 16-point turn," says John Jarasa, editor of Dub, one of a handful of magazines that have sprung up in the past three years to showcase celebrities with big wheels...
...Summers' Mass. Hall office sprung several new deans, and with them new visions of the schools they were chosen to lead. He kicked off a much touted graduate student financial aid program that promises to help encourage public service around the university. And he did his best to mold Harvard to fit his executive style—taking steps to make the wildly decentralized and often chaotic University a little bit easier to lead...
...Leary begins with a stretch, resting her elbows on the sprung dance floor with her legs in a full split. Toes flex and point in well-worn canvas ballet shoes. And with a smooth of her bun, the would-be prima ballerina is ready to dance...