Hawking, Stephen, and Jane Hawking Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen. Jane Hawking. Richmond, Surrey, UK: Alma Books, 2007. 403 pp. $32.95.
"Jane Hawking's memoir is an account of her 25-year marriage to Stephen and its very public end, when Stephen left to live with one of his nurses. Jane believes she was unfairly cast as the villain of the story by Stephen, his family and the media. …
Byline: MIKE HUREWITZ Staff writer
The county added roughly 15 miles of sewer pipe to its 120-mile network in 1999, the system's number two administrator told the County Sewer Board Wednesday.
John O'Brien said roughly six miles of pressurized sewer main and eight miles of gravity fed lines were added to the system.
``This shows that the district is contributing to the growth in the county,'' Chairman William J. Davis of Clifton Park told the panel.
Development in parts of the county was put on hold last year after the panel commissioned a study of the capacity of network lines. The most dramatic halt has occurred around the Grooms Road …
Ending months of market speculation, People's Bank of Bridgeport, Conn., said it plans to become a fully public company -- a move analysts said could raise as much as $3.4 billion.
People's said Wednesday that it plans to convert to a public-stock savings and loan company. It took its first step toward doing so 18 years ago when it created People's Mutual Holdings, the mutual holding company that now owns 58% of the $11 billion-asset bank's shares.
Analysts have speculated about People's intentions since July. The chatter intensified two weeks ago when People's abruptly pulled out of two conferences it was supposed to attend this month, fueling a rise in its …
The U.S. government may require new faces in executive suites at banks requiring "exceptional assistance" in the future, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Sunday.
Critics of the Obama administration's move last weekend to force out the chairman of General Motors Corp., Rick Wagoner, as a condition for possible additional federal loans say that strong government intervention contrasts with measures placed on the financial industry in return for billions of dollars in infusions.
Geithner denied there was a double standard and put banks on notice that they may need to change leadership teams in exchange for accepting more money in the …
The world became more complicated after Sept. 11, 2001, and safety is now paramount at airports, in large cities and, in some cases, in your own vehicle. Ford Motor Co. in late January announced that its Lincoln division would build bullet-resistant versions of the Town Car sedan to meet increased demand for armored vehicles. The sturdy brand will cost about $140,000 and is being called the Lincoln Town Car Ballistic Protection Series (BPS). A regular Town Car sells for about $40,000.The vehicles should be ready for sale in mid2003, with Ford producing a batch of 300.
According to Ford, worldwide demand for armored passenger vehicles rose to 18,000 last year from …
DEERFIELD, Ill. --After 37 years with Walgreen Co. executive vice president of marketing Vein Brunner notes that the biggest change he has seen is the implementation of the advanced technological systems needed to compete in today's retail marketplace.
What hasn't changed, he says, is what makes a product successful. How a product is packaged, advertised and merchandised at store level remain the vital components of its success.
With WaLgreens' point-of-sale scanning capabilities, the drug chain has the tools to do extensive tracking of product movement and receives virtually instant results. "Every merchandise category in our stores is carefully analyzed", …
Byline: Aaron Gouveia
Aug. 24--WOODS HOLE -- The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution accepted the largest single monetary award in its history yesterday. It will create a system of offshore, remotely controlled, ocean observatories.
The $97.7 million from the National Science Foundation and Joint Oceanographic Institution's Ocean Observatories Initiative, along with $10 million from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, will be used to build and deploy a system of buoys, linked to stations on the ocean floor. The stations will house unmanned underwater vehicles controlled remotely by scientists, which will collect data and transmit information back to …
