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...book, Burrough and Helyar also portray him as a Machiavellian cutthroat who betrayed numerous colleagues on his way - to the top, a spendthrift who moved the RJR Nabisco headquarters to Atlanta -- callously firing thousands of employees in the process -- in part because he didn't like "bucolic" Winston-Salem, and a derelict CEO who repeatedly misled his shareholders, his employees and his board of directors...
Encouraged by the discovery of such structural differences, many researchers have begun looking for dichotomies of function as well. At the Bowman Gray Medical School in Winston-Salem, N.C., Cecile Naylor has determined that men and women enlist widely varying parts of their brain when asked to spell words. By monitoring increases in blood flow, the neuropsychologist found that women use both sides of their head when spelling while men use primarily their left side. Because the area activated on the right side is used in understanding emotions, the women apparently tap a wider range of experience for their task...
Lisa Valk, 41, knows TIME well. This will be her third tour with the magazine; as she said the other day, "It's almost like coming home." A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., she studied political science at Virginia's Hollins College, where she proudly serves as a trustee. After working as a hospital administrator in Boston, she enrolled at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration and in 1979 joined TIME's circulation staff. Six years later, after stints with two of our sister magazines, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, she returned to TIME as circulation director, where she helped...
NCNB, which acquired First RepublicBank of Texas in 1988, has long coveted C&S/Sovran. The proposed merger came only three days after Winston-Salem's Wachovia Corp. agreed to buy troubled South Carolina National for $800 million. The deals probably foreshadow a new wave of acquisitions, even among such big banks as Chemical, Chase Manhattan, Wells Fargo and Security Pacific. Says analyst James McDermott: "The industry is poised for a massive round of consolidations...
Wong says she's been influenced by a blend of cultures. Born in Queens, she grew up in Winston-Salem, NC, as one of the few Asian-Americans in a large public high school. Harvard was an exciting new world, she says...