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Discontent with both the cost and the sometimes impersonal delivery of health care has fueled growth in alternative medicine, now a $14 billion-a- year industry. ``I can heal myself twice as fast,'' boasts Bill Ambrose, 44, a Denver energy-management technician who has been treating a minor leg injury with a homeopathic herb. Home-improvement retailers are profiting from consumers who find plumbers, contractors and electricians to be unaffordable, untrustworthy or both. Home Depot, the largest home-improvement retailer, posted record earnings of $141 million for the third quarter of 1994, a 36% increase over the same period...
...bigger star than ever. Most of the major TV networks and national press turned up last week to witness his triumphant return. After 10 months in a minimum-security prison -- and away from his computers -- he looks relatively healthy and relaxed. He's now employed as a computer technician at ECHO, a New York-based online salon. It hardly ever crashes...
Just hearing these early recordings, one takes pleasure from Taylor's sheer audacity. He does what all musicians at some point dream of doing: going on stage and banging on the piano with hands and fists, like a film technician simply searching for the neat sound effect. But as Taylor's recordings from the 1960s show, his music is much more profound than that...
...authority. The man, 49-year-old Edward Leary of nearby Scotch Plains, N.J., was arrested in his hospital bed early today after he was found badly burned two stops from the disaster site and police discovered bomb-making paraphernalia in his apartment. Investigators said Leary, an unemployed former computer technician, likely intended to have the bomb go off on the subway while it crossed an underwater tunnel from Manhattan to Brooklyn -- after he had disembarked. But the device -- made with two mayonnaise jars, gasoline, 9-volt batteries and a kitchen timer -- went off before he got away, engulfing the stopped...
...department also doesn't have the money to fund a large number of technicians "so grad students have to do a technician's job and that's hard," according to Rogers...