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Profiles Nancy Santanello, head of the epidemiology department at Merck Research Laboratories in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Decision of Santanello to leave the teaching career to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor; Management style of recognizing everyone who works with her for their ideas and hard work; Illustration of Santanello as a wife and mother.

But when Doug Hopkins, a New York City, artist in search of studio space, saw an abandoned oil-pumping station near Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, he knew he had to buy it. No matter that the compound, built in 1908, was more than he bargained for: It came with a 2,000-square-foot pumping station, a warehouse, a manifold house, and twin 1,600-square-foot houses — one for the night foreman, one for the day foreman. Originally intending to move to the property right away, Hopkins had no sooner signed the closing papers than he fell in love with a New York psychotherapist, Marika Handakas, who wasn't ready to leave New York.