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Meeting a need she discovered, Raftery is leading one of the supermarket tours she began eight years ago as an extension of her role as cooking teacher and unofficial den mother to the large Japanese expatriate community here. Having raised three children, Raftery, 37, has accumulated a practical knowledge of middle-American cuisine and cleaning products that she now cheerfully dispenses to her students, most of them house wives whose husbands commute to work in Manhattan...
WHISTLE-BLOWERS COME IN ALL different styles, but they don't tend to be the boss's choice to inherit the top job. Mark Whitacre, 38, was just such a favorite at giant Archer Daniels Midland, the company that calls itself "supermarket to the world" because its products range from flour to vegetable oil. So close was Whitacre to ADM chairman Dwayne Andreas that the older man regarded the younger as a "second son." And as if to emulate his mentor, Whitacre lived in a colonial-style mansion in Moweaqua, Illinois, that Andreas once owned...
...Smith, it seems, the attention from Russell was just one of several emotional dramas played out during her high school years. She first attempted suicide at 13, then tried again when she was 17, reportedly after a fellow employee at the local Winn-Dixie supermarket, a married man, ended their romance. This second try, an overdose of aspirin, landed her in the hospital, where doctors diagnosed her condition as an "adjustment disorder" -- an inappropriate reaction to stress...
Since taking office, the mayor has broken ground for the $165 million New Jersey Performing Arts Center, which is scheduled to open in 1997. He has got a supermarket chain to agree to open a store in the crime-ridden central ward and has promoted the construction of affordable housing, including the widely admired low-rise Society Hill development...
...stories pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told him she had breast cancer. Eight operations and a nervous breakdown later, she is worried about losing her new lover, a gas-station attendant. There's the Chicago doctor whose divorce and emergency-room stress led him to slam methamphetamines. Now a motel...