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...chairman C. Michael Armstrong have completed the first stages of a plan to remake the famously ponderous long-distance telephone company into a new-economy supernova. And if it seems hard to imagine that the cable bringing you Matlock reruns and Stone Cold Steve Austin will be your sole electronic connection with the outside world, get used...
...when her father died in 1988, leaving her a comfortable inheritance and naming her the sole executor of his will, Schupf began to evolve into a different woman. She returned to college and earned a B.A. in women's studies. And in 1992 she started a family foundation with a multimillion-dollar endowment. She wanted the foundation to encourage women in science but was told by research institutions that the more important work was being done by men. Schupf persisted, contributing $1.5 million for a female science professor's post at Skidmore College in New York State and funding...
DIED. LEON HESS, 85, former oil tycoon and owner of the New York Jets; in New York City. Hess, whose net worth last year was estimated by Forbes to be $720 million, bought in to the team in 1963, later becoming sole owner...
...business decision, a political decision or a moral decision? Wal-Mart, the nation?s fifth largest distributor of pharmaceutical products -- and often the sole druggist in smaller communities -- has decided not to sell an FDA-approved medication. The drug is Preven, a prescription morning-after pill that prevents pregnancy. The company says it?s strictly a "business decision"; Planned Parenthood and others involved in the birth control and abortion debate aren?t so sure. They believe the company is reacting to pressure from pro-life groups, though the company denies...
...part centrist candidate commanding only a few percentage points in the polls may have chosen Israel's next prime minister. Yitzhak Mordechai, a former defense minister who entered the campaign for Monday's election with the sole aim of unseating Netanyahu, finally withdrew Sunday, recognizing that Netanyahu would be the main beneficiary if he stayed in the race. "Barak's best chance of winning was if Mordechai withdrew and allowed him a clear shot at winning it in the first round," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "If no candidate had won a clear majority in a three...