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...also asked for a press bio--the interviewer's cheat sheet complete with names, dates and the number of L's in Von Bulow. It starts with all the usual praise one expects from the dust jacket of a hardcover. Time calls him "the top lawyer of last resort in the country--a sort of judicial St. Jude." I read on...praise from Newsweek, Business Week, Life, Esquire, Fortune, People New York, TV Guide...
...amputee's agonizing phantom limb pain. While acute pain is essentially a healthy response to tissue damage, much of chronic pain is considered "neuropathic" -- the result of inappropriate nerve signals. Physicians now rely on physical therapy and behavioral techniques like biofeedback to battle chronic pain. In severe cases, they resort to antidepressants and local nerve-block injections, with varying results...
...anticipating the establishment of a Palestinian body to monitor the territories' autonomy and are thinking of ways to undermine it. If the naysayers confine themselves to democratic protests, they will teach the Palestinian supporters of autonomy a tough but necessary lesson -- how to deal with political opposition. If they resort to sabotage, they may well ensure that their people have no chance at experimenting in self-rule for a long time to come...
Sculley hopes that Kaleida will overcome the problem. In late July, at an industry conference that Apple sponsored at Hakone, a mountain resort near Tokyo, he announced that starting next year his company will build CD-ROM players into most of its computers at cost to stir consumer interest. Says Chuck Goto, general manager of S.G. Warburg Securities in Tokyo: "The new technology is ready, but so far, no one has shown the imagination to figure out a product consumers want. Apple is trying to build the critical mass." If the company succeeds, it will be blazing an impressive trail...
...turns out that Bucky, an international investment consultant, had business ties to firms that could have profited from the choice of a tiny nation trying to boost its tourism. He was, for example, a consultant for CIGA, an Italian hotel firm that was mulling construction of a new resort in Malta at the time. He was also involved in a French firm that was planning to sell restaurant equipment in Malta. Asked about the connections last week, William Bush referred the inquiry to the White House, which responded simply that Bucky "did not stand to benefit in any way from...