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...Mediocreville. Both are trying desperately to avoid that end, one by boundlessly buying new businesses and the other by ripping itself apart. These are choices that companies face all the time, by the way, and they are critical to stock-market performance. One company is AT&T, which last week announced its third breakup in 17 years. The other is GE, which unveiled its umpteenth and largest acquisition--$45 billion for defense contractor Honeywell...
...when I had to pick someone to help me test a new digital picture frame from Kodak--which goes on sale at Kodak.com this week--my high school pal was the obvious choice. After all, what new mom can resist snapping pictures of her precious offspring? And with a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences, she's hardly a technophobe...
Headline writers are calling it "the economy-class syndrome," underscoring the striking difference between the legroom in first- and business-class cabins and that in the rest of the plane. In a widely reported case last week, an apparently healthy British woman in her late 20s took a 20-hr. flight from Australia to London and collapsed at Heathrow Airport 10 minutes after arrival. She died within hours. An autopsy showed that she had developed deep venous thrombosis--a blood clot in her leg--that lodged in one of her lungs...
...airline industry, however, disputes the link between cramped seats and DVT, and got support last week from a report in the British medical journal The Lancet by Dutch and Italian researchers, which found no added risk from air travel--or long journeys by any other mode of transportation...
Thanks to the new movie version of Charlie's Angels, which opens this week, interest in the three detectives of Charles Townsend Private Investigations has been rekindled. Hoping to cash in, the cable channel TV Land has been airing a lot of old Angels episodes. I hadn't seen one since childhood. So the other day I tuned in, curious to know whether my liberation memories would match up with the actual product, especially now that I have de Beauvoir and Ferraro and riot grrl under my belt. The episode was called Target: Angels. Kelly (Jaclyn Smith), Sabrina (Kate Jackson...