Dr. Spetzler Sets the Standard for BNI
As a 5-year-old boy in his native Germany, there was one thing
Robert Spetzler knew for certain: he wanted to become a neurosurgeon.
Sixty years later, as director of Barrow Neurological Institute at
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Robert F. Spetzler, M.D.,
has performed thousands of brain surgeries and has earned recognit
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Karlin’s ‘Raw Art’
It was a purple cauliflower at the Belfast farmers' market in Maine
that inspired Lynn Karlin, a longtime photographer and former market
gardener, to focus her artistic eye on vegetables.
"It was beautiful because it was encased in its leaves," said Ms.
Karlin, 63, who started her career 40 years ago as the first female
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Giverny Blooms in the Bronx
The market for Claude Monet's paintings faltered in the 1880s but
came back the following decade, when he started producing series like
the haystacks and the Rouen Cathedral facades. He began to make a lot
of money, enough to finance his own private utopia in Giverny in
northern France, where he devoted himself to flower gardening with as
much industry and
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