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Well, maybe not quite the way a National Basketball Association team would go after Michael Jordan. But if you're a manager in the American Hiring League, you are looking for employees in the hottest U.S. economy in 28 years, and you're going to have to wheel and deal, beg, borrow and steal--however and wherever you can--to find the help you need. Not since 1970, when the Vietnam War and a guns-and-butter economy created a huge demand for skilled manpower, has there been a tougher time to expand the corporate work force, especially...
...what is so far the summer's best nonfiction adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (Atlantic Monthly; 507 pages; $27.50). As author Gary Kinder relates, in 1857, some years after making his exploration and writing his book, Herndon had charge of a large paddle-wheel steamer bound from the Panamanian port city of Aspinwall, now known as Colon, to New York City. The S.S. Central America carried 500 passengers, many of them returning rich with gold dust and nuggets from the California gold rush that still continued. In addition to these private, unregistered stashes, the ship...
Some people have dismissed Windows 98--The new operating system from Microsoft that goes on sale next week--as little more than a bug fix. Don't believe it: if Windows 98 is a mere bug fix, then so was adding a fourth wheel to the automobile. This is an operating system that's finally stable. My computer used to crash more than a three-wheeled car. Since installing Windows 98 two weeks ago, it's run smoothly, perkily and reliably. Best of all, it has yet to freeze, or even shiver...
When Jeff Gordon won the Coca-Cola 600 last month, he celebrated with a liter of Pepsi, his new soft-drink sponsor. It was only fair. He won the Pepsi 400 while representing Coke. The two cola giants went wheel to wheel to roll up Gordon's endorsement, one measure of the man's crossover status as a national marketing icon. With two Winston Cup stock-car championships in the past three seasons, the California-born, Indiana-honed speed merchant is one of the hottest athletes in an even hotter sport...
Sadly, Glimp spent his last three decades squandering his creative energies in a legal battle with Alfred A. Knopf; the artist demanded more royalties, while Knopf contended that he was not Glimp's publisher. At 86, death came peacefully to this proud virtuoso as he slept at the wheel of his sports car and drove into a tree. But wherever there are tiny, neurotic cultists with fruit and incense, Cranford Glimp's art will live...