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...have even helped him learn to conduct his professional life a bit more professionally. "He entered the business world a real novice," says Regis McKenna, the renowned Valley marketing guru, who's known Jobs since he was a teenager. "He had no management training, no business skills." It showed. Young Jobs was a my-way-or-the-highway iconoclast who cared only that his employees embrace his apocalyptic vision for Apple as passionately as he did. "If you had religion," recalls McKenna, "you had the job." Such absolutism helped give birth to the Mac, but it wasn't exactly conducive...
Damasio cites the case of a young woman who at age 30, shortly after the birth of her second child, entered a netherworld of nonstop epileptic seizures. The seizures damaged a region of the brain called the hippocampus, so that afterward she could no longer recall the simplest things, like having put clothes in the washer or having given her kids permission to visit friends. For six years she has lived in a free-floating present, unable to form new memories or envision the future. Her extended consciousness has been sadly diminished...
...catalyst for capturing the Unabomber, for instance, most reporters wanted to speak only to David. "Then I get to feel envious," she says, "and David gets credit for turning in his brother, and I don't." She was also jealous of how some journalists, especially those young and female, regarded her husband, "gazing at him with puppy-dog eyes and hanging on every word." Did her philosophy students ever question her about the moral dimensions of her dilemma? "No, no, no. They come to me and say, 'Oh, your husband's so wonderful, you're so lucky to be married...
...dramas--Stroman calls them short stories--performed by dancer-actors and accompanied by a delectably eclectic jukebox of recordings by everybody from Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli to Robert Palmer and the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Nobody onstage sings a note. In Swinging, Fragonard's 1767 painting of an aristocratic young lady (Stephanie Michels) frolicking in a forest glade becomes a real-life menage a trois even kinkier than it looks. Did You Move?, set in an Italian restaurant in Queens circa 1954, is a bittersweet vignette about an unhappy housewife (Karen Ziemba) who takes refuge in increasingly wild fantasies...
Allison Levin is the mother of three young children and a professional in the growing field of "work/life quality" as a partner in the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Levin counsels employees who are overwhelmed by their work and family obligations to carefully review their commitments--not only at the office but at home and in the community too--and start paring them down. "It's not about getting up earlier in the morning so you can get more done," she says. "It's about saying no and making choices." Working parents, she adds, should be fully home when they're home...