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William Hambrecht: Green Thumb. Hambrecht feels a great sense of accomplishment when he picks a bunch of ripe, juicy Zinfandel grapes from his 140-acre vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif., or clips a dazzling orchid in his San Francisco greenhouse. "I like to grow things," he says...
...silently, as if under water, photographs of their sons, daughters and husbands swinging on chains from their necks like good-luck charms. Sometimes the women would bear the photographs on placards; sometimes they would hold a snapshot delicately out in front of them between the index finger and the thumb, presenting unassailable proof to anyone who cared to look that the subject of the picture did, at one time, exist. Every Thursday the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo performed their half-hour ritual across the street from the presidential Pink House, and then dispersed for a week. But they would...
Publishers have found that executives are willing to pay a fancy price for sleek and functional models. Some diaries are like almanacs, thumb-indexed to bring elusive and obscure statistics within quick reach. Others serve as miniature filing cabinets to gather up all those scraps of paper that litter a desktop. A few make esoteric fashion statements. Saks Fifth Avenue sells an Italian-made calendar covered in burgundy-colored crocodile hide. Price...
...Globe-Democrat will leave metropolitan St. Louis (pop. 1 8 mil lion) with only one regional newspaper, the 105-year-old Post-Dispatch. It will also shrink to 50 the number of U.S. cities with independency owned, editorially competitive dailies. The failure defied several newspaper-industry rules of thumb: the morning Globe-Democrat (daily circ 255,000) is bigger than the afternoon Post-Dispatch (daily circ. 230,000); it is published at what is considered a more advantageous time of day; and it is, at least in terms of local coverage, the better paper Nonetheless, the economic calculations behind last...
When starter Mike Caraviello came out with a bruised thumb, Polsinello came through with a 13-of-19, 236-yard passing performance...