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cameos

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 recognitread more
arts

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 femaleread more
gardens

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 andread more