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Some brave swinophiles have taken full-size pigs as pets. In addition to their two Vietnamese potbellies, Raymond Sattler, a Wilmington, N.C., neurosurgeon, and his wife Debbie have a pair of champion Durocs, which currently weigh in at 700 lbs. apiece. It's just one pig-happy family, the doctor reports. "When we come home, it's impossible to watch the pigs and not just chuckle and feel better," says Sattler. "To be sitting in front of a fireplace with a bottle of wine, your wife and a pig is the ultimate in relaxation...
...people buying water and cannedgoods like pork and beans. It's been prettysteady," said Bryan Raleigh, manager of the MarketStreet Food Lion in Wilmington, N.C., where nearbyCarolina Beach suffered $90 million in damageswhen hit by Hurricane Diana...
...around 15 classmates chosen to work for Esso, as Exxon was then called. As a third mate, he earned $24,000, extraordinary pay for a young man starting out in 1968. Hazelwood, who by then preferred to be called Joe, reported for duty on the Esso Florence in Wilmington, N.C. His seafaring instincts made an instant impression. "Joe had what we old-timers refer to as a seaman's eye," recalls Steve Brelsford, a retired Exxon captain and Hazelwood's first boss. "He had that sixth sense about seafaring that enables you to smell a storm on the horizon...
...hours last Friday morning, more than 40 lawyers, reporters and Wall Street speculators camped outside a quiet office in the Delaware Court of Chancery in Wilmington. They were anxiously awaiting the outcome of one of the most intensely watched corporate takeover fights in the 197-year history of the court. When clerks appeared at 10:30 with copies of Chancellor William Allen's 79-page ruling, the aggressive crowd tore the documents from the court officials' hands. Dialing their offices, moneymen shouted into their cellular phones, "The Time-Warner merger...
...Alcar Group, a management-consulting firm that champions shareholder value: "What Time must now do is not celebrate the decision, but convince the marketplace that the new company can still deliver." For now, however, Time must keep one eye on the marketplace and the other on a courtroom in Wilmington, where its freedom to purchase Warner will finally be decided...