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...Could it be that a billionaire narcotics trafficker who regularly eluded assassins and prosecutors alike had met his end as the result of a nip and tuck? Having taken an international beating for failing to apprehend Carrillo over the years, the Mexican government was initially reluctant to declare the baron dead. But by early last week, officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which considered Carrillo its No. 1 target, confirmed that the corpse's fingerprints matched those known to have come from the fabled criminal. Mexican physicians then conducted tests that matched DNA taken from the body to genetic...
...would be nice if President Clinton would speak out at least as forcefully as an oil baron on the subject of climate change. Instead, in his closing speech at the U.N., Clinton almost plaintively said he could not do anything until Americans and the Congress were convinced that climate change was "real and imminent." To that end, he has promised to hold a conference later this year to highlight the problem. Perhaps then we will see whether he is willing to be as forceful on the issue of greenhouse gases as he was last week on the issue of smog...
DIED. MANFRED VON ARDENNE, 90, Germany's scientific jack-of-all-trades; in Dresden. The "Red Baron" vowed to switch fields each decade to keep his intellect sharp. As a physicist, he helped the Soviets build the atom bomb...
...turned up in Chicago. Lee Miglin, 72, was one of that city's more respected and better-known developers. A coal miner's son turned real estate baron, he had been a major player in Chicago's late-1980s building boom and was a generous philanthropist. His wife Marilyn, 58, was a successful and well-known cosmetics executive. On the morning of May 4, she returned from a business trip to find Miglin missing from their three-story brick row house in Chicago's Gold Coast district. Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly...
Seven billion, actually. And the mercurial software baron--who owes his success to a database-management program most Americans have never heard of--has taken full advantage of the fortune. For starters, Ellison could be a poster boy for Billionaire Chic. He drives expensive cars, loves beautiful women and jets off to exotic locations to sail his yacht. In Silicon Valley, where every day is casual Friday, the chairman of Oracle, based in San Mateo, Calif., dresses like the Prince of Wales. He shows up at industry functions in double-breasted suits, French cuffs and knuckle-size cuff links...