Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Today 59-year-old Polansky is "better but still not 100%." She has used up her time on workmen's comp, which she was awarded for unrelated but disabling ergonomic pain. And she's been terminated by Southwest for failing to return to work within the 36 months allowed for medical leave. Along with half a dozen other employees who have spoken out about their health problems, Polansky is consumed by mounting medical bills, the cost of her lawsuits against the airline and the air-conditioning company that serviced the building, and by Southwest's countercharge that...
...goes in Distraction (Bantam; $23.95), the latest novel from Bruce Sterling, one of America's best-known science-fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre...
...Walkman, the Mac, MTV and Nintendo helped too, but the cyberpunk novels--most notably Gibson's cyberspace epic Neuromancer--were clearly a formative influence on today's Gen X Silicon Valley sensibility. Sterling himself edited the seminal 1986 anthology Mirrorshades; his prologue became the de facto cyberpunk manifesto and remains, he ruefully admits, his most widely known work to date...
Aside from their headline-grabbing size, those gifts reflect changes in the character and aims of big-money philanthropy. While there are still benefactors who hand wads of money to nonprofit institutions to disburse as they wish, today's philanthropists are more likely to approach charity with the same hands-on management they bring to their businesses and stock portfolios. Says H. Peter Karoff, head of the Philanthropic Initiative, a consulting firm that helps wealthy clients donate like investors: "The hard look at the management of charitable groups, the scrutiny of how an organization makes an impact--all those things...
...Today's givers match their money with their energy. Forstmann, who is chairman of Gulfstream Aerospace and a senior partner at a New York LBO firm he co-founded, spent a year canvassing the country, examining local school districts--the program will serve 40,000 students in 38 cities--and cajoling everyone from Michael Ovitz to Barbara Bush to join the fund's board of advisers. He got the idea for the venture after years of studying a similar financial-aid program in New York City. Nine out of 10 school kids who used money from the fund to attend...