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...impoverished economy into visible ruins, the bitter years of sanctions and international opprobrium. Domestic repression and self-serving propaganda had reached critical mass, draining away the last vestiges of his once genuine popularity. "The underlying discontent, up till now only flickering, burst out," says Milan Milosevic, a political analyst at the independent Belgrade weekly Vreme. "Everything needed to make the change possible was suddenly there...
Some women create home-based businesses in an effort to forge a better interface between their jobs and their children. California biologist Tiffany Yuen Hollfelder, 33, used to work full time as a data analyst for a consulting firm. Shortly before her daughter Robyn was born in 1996, she went into the consulting business for herself, cutting back to part time and working from home. "I was actually a bit more productive at home because there weren't meetings to go to or people stopping by to talk," says Hollfelder, whose mother helped out with child care. Then last June...
When former biotech analyst Peter Freudenthal floated a plan for a publicly traded venture-capital fund last year, he learned how radical an idea it was. As he made the rounds of the venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif., he found they didn't want to open their cozy world to hordes of retail investors. VCs were doing fine logging triple-digit gains by making early bets on dotcoms before they went public and swimming in cash raised from the likes of pension funds and the wealthiest individual investors...
...this article, didn't you?) The fact is--as the stitching-pattern makers learned the hard way--there's no corner of the so-called content industry, no bit of intellectual property, no idea, that isn't in danger of being Napsterized. "The hype is justified," insists Jupiter Communications analyst Aram Sinnreich. "Network file sharing has profound implications for the business model of the entire entertainment industry...
Against the advice of more experienced colleagues who said Asians wouldn't eat bread or cheese, Heinecke opened the first Pizza Hut in Asia in 1980 in the beach resort of Pattaya, southeast of Bangkok. "It was a daring move," says Kitti Naktisuwan, an analyst with ABN AMRO Asia Securities. It was also the right move at the right time. Thais flocked to sample such customized wares as tom yum (spicy soup) pizza, and Heinecke, who became a Thai citizen in 1991, now has 116 stores taking about 95% of the country's $50 million-a-year pizza market...