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...black holes, where gravity's pull becomes so intense that time disappears. The biomorphic design, with receding perforations that give the illusion of moving through space, heralds the relaunch of the Ikepod watch brand, which also includes redesigns of the Hemipode and Megapode watches. Launching at Miami Art Basel, these sleek timepieces will definitely survive the test of time...
MIAMI Art Basel Miami With more than 1,500 artists participating, this vast show (below) has become the destination on the art-world circuit and shouldn't be missed...
Just hours before an international press event at Art Basel last June, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) director Michael Govan faced unexpected trouble. The architectural model highlighting LACMA'S renovation and expansion plans had arrived in pieces. So Govan got some glue and tweezers and set to work. "He was extremely calm and concentrating on the task at hand," recalls friend John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. "He may be the big-picture person, but he's also able to jump in and do it himself when...
...long. In 1993 Vasella returned to Switzerland to head corporate marketing at Sandoz headquarters in Basel. The next year he briefly led the company's global drug-development programs, and he was its chief operating officer before becoming CEO of its drug business, reporting to the chairman of the conglomerate, Marc Moret--his wife's uncle. Vasella applied the lessons he had learned while managing Sandostatin to all the company's drug-development efforts. When Sandoz announced in 1996 that it would merge with its rival across the Rhine, Ciba-Geigy, Vasella was named CEO of the new company...
...Basel is in some ways the Houston of Switzerland: one industry overshadows all the others, and the zoning is haphazard. In Basel it isn't unusual to see a modern glass-and-steel monstrosity amid a row of elegant 19th century neoclassical buildings. The Rhine plies a serpentine course through the city, and Novartis' headquarters are at the river's edge, at a point where France, Germany and Switzerland meet. Across the Rhine from Novartis and a little to the east, marked by a tall white smokestack, is rival Roche. The pharmaceutical execs in Basel know one another, and they...