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BORN: Nov. 6, 1955, Springfield, Mass. EDUCATION: U of Kansas, B.A., 1978, M.B.A., 1984 FAMILY: Husband, Thomas; two children RELIGION: Jewish MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Investment broker POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 306, Wichita...
...democratic impulse in news is also reflected in the current vogue for "public" or "civic" journalism. Under this philosophy, pioneered by newspapers like the Wichita Eagle and Minneapolis Star Tribune, the news outlet seeks to "reconnect" with its community by taking polls, sponsoring issue forums and seeking solutions to neighborhood problems. For this year's political races in North Carolina, for example, several of the state's newspapers and TV stations banded together to poll voters on what issues they wanted to see addressed, and then focused coverage on those issues. The editors involved argue that this approach has made...
Boeing's top official for international development, Lawrence Clarkson, insists the company would have fewer jobs for Americans if it did not abide by China's demands: for example, in shifting half of the tail-section production for its 737s from Wichita, Kansas, to Xian. "If we hadn't moved work to China," Clarkson says, "we wouldn't have got orders." China is expected to spend $185 billion on commercial aircraft over the next 20 years...
JAMES WYNN, AN ENGINEER IN WICHITA, Kansas, had been all set to retire to the Philippines with his Filipino-born wife. For the past four years he had set aside 20% of his salary to save $40,000 in his company's 401(k) retirement plan. Or so he thought. Wynn, 63, was unable to cash out and retire this year because all his money had vanished. And his was not the only missing nest egg. Also unaccounted for were the savings of more than 180 of his colleagues at International Technical Services, a firm in Melville, New York, that...
...people were killed and about 20 injured when an Air Force training jet, apparently experiencing mechanical problems, crashed into an apartment complex in Wichita Falls, Texas, minutes after taking off from nearby Sheppard Air Force Base. The two pilots aboard ejected safely...