A lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who was violently attacked by a chimpanzee is seeking $50 million in damages from the owner of the primate, attorneys said Tuesday.
A Connecticut woman who was mauled last month by a chimpanzee remains in critical condition at the Cleveland Clinic, and her potential for recovery remains unclear, the facility said Wednesday.
This question seemed unthinkable just a week ago, but here goes: Have bank stocks finally hit bottom?
In the wake of a highly publicized chimpanzee attack, the U.S. House made its first official move to ban humans from owning primates as pets.
A team of doctors at the Cleveland Clinic will spend as much as a week determining how they will treat a woman mauled by a chimpanzee, and whether they will consider offering her a face transplant.
Images of chimpanzees on television or in the movies depict cute, cuddly and smart animals. So it's no wonder that some people, perhaps those with exotic tastes, may seek them out as pets.
A Connecticut woman attacked Monday by her friend's pet chimpanzee was taken Thursday from a Connecticut hospital to the famed Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, a hospital spokeswoman said. She would not divulge the victim's condition nor the reason for the move.
Seven hours of surgery and four teams of surgeons were needed to stabilize a Connecticut woman attacked by a pet chimpanzee, doctors at Stamford Hospital said Wednesday.
A Connecticut woman pleaded for police to "please hurry" to save a friend from an attack by a pet chimpanzee, according to emotional 911 recordings released Tuesday by Stamford police.
A woman has been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a pet chimpanzee attacked her at a friend's home in Stamford, Connecticut, police said.
A lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who was violently attacked by a chimpanzee is seeking $50 million in damages from the owner of the primate, attorneys said Tuesday.
A Connecticut woman who was mauled last month by a chimpanzee remains in critical condition at the Cleveland Clinic, and her potential for recovery remains unclear, the facility said Wednesday.
This question seemed unthinkable just a week ago, but here goes: Have bank stocks finally hit bottom?
In the wake of a highly publicized chimpanzee attack, the U.S. House made its first official move to ban humans from owning primates as pets.
A team of doctors at the Cleveland Clinic will spend as much as a week determining how they will treat a woman mauled by a chimpanzee, and whether they will consider offering her a face transplant.
Images of chimpanzees on television or in the movies depict cute, cuddly and smart animals. So it's no wonder that some people, perhaps those with exotic tastes, may seek them out as pets.
A Connecticut woman attacked Monday by her friend's pet chimpanzee was taken Thursday from a Connecticut hospital to the famed Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, a hospital spokeswoman said. She would not divulge the victim's condition nor the reason for the move.
Seven hours of surgery and four teams of surgeons were needed to stabilize a Connecticut woman attacked by a pet chimpanzee, doctors at Stamford Hospital said Wednesday.
A Connecticut woman pleaded for police to "please hurry" to save a friend from an attack by a pet chimpanzee, according to emotional 911 recordings released Tuesday by Stamford police.
A woman has been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a pet chimpanzee attacked her at a friend's home in Stamford, Connecticut, police said.
A woman has been hospitalized with serious injuries to her face, neck and hands after a pet chimpanzee attacked her at a friend's home in Stamford, Connecticut.
Among those lost was a 9/11 widow en route to celebrate her late husband
It's midmorning of a cool May day on the California coast. Standing amid rolling fairways and tightly trimmed greens, entrepreneurs Jared and Brooke Zaugg are basking in the glory of their creation, not a golf tournament but a celebration of machinery. Today the Ocean Course links, wrapped around the Ritz-Carlton hotel at Half Moon Bay, are home to the third annual Legend of the Motorcycle Concours d'Elegance.
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- A frustrated Austin Rivers flipped off the TV the night of June 12. It was bad enough that a bout with bronchitis kept the son of Celtics coach Doc Rivers from flying to see Game 4 of the NBA Finals in person. Now the younger Rivers had to watch the Celtics flounder to a 24-point deficit.
The question nags at Americans every time they fill up their gas tanks: Why is it costing $4 a gallon?
It's every professional's nightmare: You're working in a great job for a well-regarded employer, then the company -- seemingly overnight -- suffers a crisis and is bought out or goes belly-up. Your career, which seemed golden just a few days ago, suddenly looks to be in jeopardy. And the pressure's all the worse if your savings were heavily invested in your employer's now-much-devalued stock.
Conservative political commentator William F. Buckley Jr. was found dead in his home in Stamford, Conn., the Associated Press reports. He was 82.
MBIA on Tuesday became the second bond insurer to replace its chief executive this year, bringing former chief Jay Brown back to replace Gary Dunton. Ambac, the second-largest financial guarantor after MBIA, last month named Michael Callen to take over for the retiring Robert Genader.
Dressed in a conservative blue suit and a starched white shirt, Michael Skakel could have been going to a business meeting rather than a courthouse. And from his placid demeanor, one might have thought the Kennedy cousin was relaxing at the family compound on Cape Cod rather than being arraigned for the brutal 1975 murder of Martha Moxley.
If you think being a secret agent is all just one giant adrenaline rush, think again.
Your boss might give you a break if you're late to work a few times, but don't expect the same courtesy from your credit card issuer. Pay your bill late even once and you'll take a real hit to your financial future.
Oil prices dropped sharply Tuesday, ending below $80 a barrel, and other energy futures followed suit as investors locked in profits from the recent record-setting rally.
Two University of Florida police officers were placed on leave Tuesday after using an electronic stun gun to subdue a student questioning Sen. John Kerry at a campus forum.
The subprime crisis engulfing world stock and credit markets weighed on oil prices again Friday, but declines were limited as market fundamentals continued to buttress prices.
Bonds dipped Wednesday as profit taking from a recent rally overshadowed the release of soft economic reports. The dollar gained slightly against the euro and the yen.
Dear FSB: My baking company is growing incredibly fast, and I often feel I could use a little advice. How can I form an advisory board? -Stephanie Vandegrift, Stephanie's Premium Bakery, Dallas
Maria Aposporos must never have heard the adage about fighting city hall. The 60-year-old owner of Curley's, a Stamford, Conn., diner, took on her local government when the city decided that her lo...
Manhattan and the metropolitan area of Stamford/Norwalk, Conn. have the highest paying taxpayers among U.S. counties and cities.
Bonds ticked higher Monday after a dip in the stock market forced investors to seek shelter in the Treasury market.
Treasury prices rose Tuesday as stock markets around the globe tumbled, while the dollar gained.
In order to afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, you should be earning nearly $30 an hour in wages, 40 hours a week.
Federal prosecutors said Thursday they charged Bayou Management LLC, the hedge fund at the center of a multimillion-dollar missing-funds case, with defrauding investors and sought $101 million in civil forfeitures against the firm.
The costs of selling a home have risen in lockstep with higher real estate prices in recent years. Americans now pay more than $70 billion a year in broker commissions.
State and federal officials are said to be investigating the possible collapse of Bayou Group, a $400 million, Stamford, Conn.-based hedge fund firm, after reports that investors were unable to get their money out of its two funds.
Five years after retiring as CEO of Philip Morris Capital Corp., George Lewis sits in his Stamford, Conn., home, taking in the lush view and reflecting on his arduous path to the top. His conclusio...
I'm 25 years old, have about $30,000 in my 401(k) and carry a $3,500 balance on my credit cards. I'm thinking about stopping my 401(k) contributions to pay off my credit-card debt. What do you think?
These 35 employers bend over backwards to recruit and retain older workers, and treat them right, according to the AARP.
All too often, hotel fitness centers are small and crowded, closed when you want to use them, or outfitted with obsolete equipment. But that's no reason to flop on the bed and order a burger and fr...
When I left the Philadelphia 76ers' president's suite three years ago, I lost the invaluable support of my partner, Comcast-Spectacor, and its crack staff of lawyers, accountants, webmasters, graph...
Jay Walker, the inventor of priceline.com, is on a mission to find more new ways of doing business. The CEO of idea factory Walker Digital, in Stamford, Conn., is busy pitching patents to everyone ...
Whether you're eyeing a vacation property, looking to refinance, or thinking about how to help your kids get into a starter home, the array of mortgage options can be dizzying. Mix in a nagging unc...
I'm 37, married but no children yet and I've just sold a piece of property I inherited for $1.2 million.
I'm 53 and thinking of semi-retiring in a year or so. Do you think I'd be better off buying individual corporate bonds or bond funds?
The people who consider buying franchise businesses range from laid-off managers to ambitious entrepreneurs.
It began with a unique plastic gizmo for holding broken crayons, rigged up by Norman Goldstein's 11-year-old daughter, Cassidy. The Crayon Holder, to be rolled out in toy and stationery stores this...
Behind every pitch for business software lies a kind of quiet extortion. If you don't buy this product, maybe your competitors will. Maybe they will then go on a sustained surge in productivity and...
What handy five- by seven-inch contraption has the ability to fend off bad guys yet isn't endorsed by the NRA? A desktop label-printer. After Sept. 11, offices and trade shows have had to rethink h...
Mike Kelly is a 21st-century town crier who's using the Internet to inform residents in small communities about local events and activities that affect their daily lives. His 1 1/2-year-old Website...
Sooner or later every parent gets around to thinking the unthinkable: Who would raise my children if something were to happen to me? Who would provide for them if I weren't around?
Meredith Fischer is vice president for corporate marketing at the postal meter and fax company Pitney Bowes in Stamford, Conn. She is one of the authors of a study on messaging and work conducted b...
Retailer Joe Sitt couldn't find anyone to invest in his profitable clothing-store chain, which caters to large-sized African-American women. The potential market was too narrow, black consumers don...
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A president under impeachment; a new technology containing damning evidence; a frantic last-minute appeal. Yep, 1868 was a remarkable year. As Alan Westin, Columbia professor and publisher of Priva...
If the recent news that there may soon be even more competition for your long-distance business leaves you feeling more beleaguered than excited, that's understandable.
DEAR ANNIE: My company hired a consulting firm to help out with a major restructuring, and maybe I'm just paranoid, but I think the consultant assigned to my division is after my job. He ignores me...
By now, you've probably heard about the year 2000 problem facing the world's computers. But do you know that this huge programming conundrum might mean big investment profits too? Here's how:
When FORTUNE asked the question two issues ago, we unfortunately gave the wrong answers, due to incorrect data supplied by Moran Stahl & Boyer, a consulting firm specializing in business-location s...
Jewelry has Cartier, mustard has Grey Poupon, and jazz has Mosaic records. For the past 15 years, this mail-order company, based in Stamford, Conn., has been producing comprehensive boxed sets (res...
Iowa City, Iowa--hardly famous as an intellectual capital--has a higher percentage of college graduates than any other city in the U.S., as measured by Moran Stahl & Boyer, a consulting firm specia...
Cell-phone connections can be fuzzy; so can their payment plans and bills. About 17% of Americans use cell phones, according to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, paying an avera...
XEROX CORP. (XRX) NYSE, $79; 1.6% YIELD
It must be the upcoming election, for what else would explain why Congress is handing out tax breaks for voters worried about growing old, getting sick, and going broke? Tucked in the Health Insura...
AS RECENTLY AS THE 1950S, MOST PEOPLE had just two choices when they wanted headache relief: They could take an aspirin, or they could take two aspirin. Today, however, the shelves of drugstores pr...
ON WALL STREET'S sloppy playing field, no team has made a more surprising comeback in blocking, tackling, and most important, in scoring than Merrill Lynch. What was once a fumbling squad of beefy,...
IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT BUYING A house, beware of the fast-turnaround prequalifications that a growing number of mortgage lenders have begun to push. One national lender, Citicorp Mortgage in Stam...
A renewed turf war has broken out between New York City and towns in Connecticut and New Jersey intent on siphoning off its jobs. It's symptomatic of unceasing job relocation auctions nationwide.
Look at your company's budget: Add up all you spend for accounting, advertising, brochures, catalogues, communications, computers, conventions, faxing, newsletters, networks, overheads, research, s...
Long tagged a drowner, the mainframe computer refuses to sink. Last year IBM shipped more mainframe capacity than ever, but still could not keep up with demand. Mainframe maker Amdahl of Sunnyvale,...
It's not uncommon for people to wake up with hangovers on New Year's Day. But on January 1, 2000, many computers may also find themselves dazed and confused.
Money is like manure -- it has to be spread around. Which is exactly what the Pennsylvania Private Investors Group -- 33 Philadelphia millionaires who meet for breakfast once a month -- does. They ...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller
It happens like clockwork virtually every summer: Prices on technology stocks cool as surely as the days heat up. In fact, high-tech stocks can almost be counted upon to stumble sometime around Jun...
Now that you know who's on the 500, you may be wondering how to find them. The following pages are meant to serve as a handy address book of the country's largest industrials. Companies are grouped...
The relentless global drive for higher productivity promises to raise living standards everywhere -- eventually. But until then, what's good for individual companies may prove a disaster for the mi...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Richard B. Stolley CORPORATE EDITOR Gilbert Rogin DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA John Papanek
It certainly looks like a trend: Corporate boards of directors belatedly wake up and discipline an underperforming CEO. General Motors and Chrysler have done it since March, and now fans of this bl...
Here's an economic puzzle: While executives are sitting around brooding over the terrible state of business, many have been investing vigorously in | equipment and machinery to increase efficiency ...
White collars and pink slips lately have combined to make a distressing fashion statement. Here's one strategy for the managers among the more than 200,000 white-collar workers fired this year: thi...
Here's applause for your article on the chronically ill child, which I read as the parent of a child with kidney disease to whom I donated a kidney. I hope your article increases the awareness of t...
THE WORLD'S SMALLEST FAX Compact enough to be slated for inclusion in an upcoming edition of the Guinness Book of Records, Ricoh Corp.'s PF-1 facsimile machine measures 11 by 7 inches -- it fits on...
Some critics of price-level adjusted mortgages (PLAMs) ((Mail: A Caution from Kemp, July)) are alarmed because nominal payments can seem quite high if inflation accelerates. In real terms, however,...
It was a close vote when Bank of New York attacked Irving Trust's directors in the opening rounds of BNY's takeover battle: Shareholders backed the board with a margin of just 2.5% of the vote, and...
Welcome to the fire sale. Charles and Maurice Saatchi, their advertising empire short of cash and fearing a takeover, want to sell off the consulting firms they have acquired so hungrily over the p...
Opportunity doesn't knock these days, it telephones, sometimes in the form of a call from an executive recruiter. The old standard advice for dealing with this contingency: Close your office door b...
From AT&T's perspective, the seven regional telephone companies are ungrateful offspring that are about to bite the hand that once fed them. As far as the regionals are concerned, they are just get...
MARKETERS of consumer products are rewriting the rules of their game. They still spend billions on advertising in hopes of building long-term consumer loyalty for their brands. But increasingly the...
STAMFORD, CONN. -- Let others clip supermarket coupons. These bargain hunters collect parking tickets. ''It's not that I enjoy getting tickets,'' said Suzanne Christina, who gets one every day. ''B...
CONSUMERS INTERESTED in finding out what's up at their local computer store may be better off checking out the obit section of the paper than the ads. In December Computer Depot, a publicly held ch...
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