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...working at a biomedical laboratory in her native Maryland when she decided in 1976 that she could make more money by using her scientific background in a business career. After earning an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago, she was recruited by Ohio's Standard Oil to help found Vista Ventures, a venture capital firm with headquarters in New Canaan, Conn. She helped finance the Liposome Co., an enterprise specializing in the production of small membranes used to assist in administering medications and one of the biotechnology industry's hottest success stories. One of Lobo's current favored companies...
...Vista also near San Diego, has been open only since January. Its clients, like those of many spas now, often arrive in good shape. "Many people are not coming to lose weight," notes Director Susan Power. "They're coming for maintenance and fine-tuning." And relief from stress. With that in mind, Cal-a-Vie is a pioneer in trying to add a European flavor to its U.S.-style exercise and dietary programs. Europe's spas, which date back to the Roman Empire, still favor mudbaths and water therapy, and Cal-a-Vie offers three Continental treatments that relax...
...outward manifestations, knows himself well enough to realize that he has botched his life and that the gloom he suffered when he could no longer believe in God "earned him the hatred of both his children." His wife Charlotte is scarcely less pathetic, as she stares "down the wrecked vista of all the wasted years in which she had been Mrs. Nettleship" and throws herself at a younger man wholly indifferent...
...bromides of Sunbelt boosterism. They are also prompted by more than a century of Western landscape photography, from the 19th century panoramas of William Henry Jackson and Carleton Watkins to the raptures of Ansel Adams. Such sources fed the fantasy of the West as a sublime hermitage, an unpeopled vista where the black comedies of human affairs have yet to intrude...
...loss of Humphrey, as the nearby Rio Vista whale watchers have named him, would be a serious one. The humpback whale is an endangered species: only some 12,000 still exist, about 5% to 10% of the original population. "They used to be very good hunting," says Mark Ferrari, a whale photographer who has helped coordinate efforts to direct the whale back...