ISN’T IT RICH?
When Hinsdale resident Jan Petty picked up her mail recently after an extended out-of-town business trip, one of the first envelopes she opened was an account statement from her broker....
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AMERITECH, IBM TO OFFER 1-STOP SERVICE
Ameritech Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. said Tuesday they were joining together to get a bigger piece of the business communications market. They said their representatives will woo customers...
`WINDOWS? I THINK IT’S THAT RESTAURANT IN THE JOHN HANCOCK’
Windows 95: Microsoft Corp. has put on one of the greatest promotional blitzes of all time to launch its new operating system. But has all the hype gotten through to...
CPC HOPES DEAL RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
Kraft Foods Inc. on Monday became the latest in the list of large food companies to exit the bakery business this year. The Northfield-based company agreed to sell such brands...
PARENT PUTS KEEBLER ON BLOCK
Elmhurst-based Keebler Co. is on the auction block, and another big baking operation-the baking division of Northfield-based Kraft Foods-appears to be. Keebler employees received word Monday that the company's parent,...
BREAST SELF-EXAM TOOL CENTER OF 10-YEAR BATTLE
Around the corner from the Soy Capitol Bank on El Dorado Street stands a low-slung tan brick building that's home to a company called Inventive Products Inc. A few years...
PENTIUM FLAP SHAKES CONSUMERS-AND INTEL
It may well be that this holiday season's lump of coal, the Pentium computer chip, will err only once every 27,000 years or will create mathematical headaches solely for those...
PHOTOGRAPHER INVENTS 3-D FRAMES OF REFERENCE
Ray Perkins is a commercial photographer in Chicago who wanted to display his photographs in frames that were different. So last year, he put together a prototype using four flexible...
IS THAT WHAT WE THINK IT IS?
How about a toilet brush that resembles a cactus growing out of a vase? What about a couple of brightly colored sugar bowls standing on little legs that look like...
A NO-NONSENSE APPROACH TO `PASTASCIUTTA’
Just in time for new pasta cooking adventures: "Italian Kitchen La Pastasciutta" by Italian chef Anna del Conte (Simon & Schuster, $14) is scheduled to arrive in bookstores Feb. 2....