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...late great Dr. Carlos Chagas, who found that this misnamed "South American sleeping sickness" was caused by a trypanosome, a microscopic animal with a complex life cycle, transmitted to man by bugs. The critters have Latin names longer than their bodies. Brazilians call them simply barbeiros (barbers) because they bite the tender skin of the face and throat...
...Armenian, but he did not rise from rugs to riches. His father. Sarkis. was a prosperous kerosene importer in suburban Constantinople. Calouste adopted an old Arab proverb as his first business maxim while palm-priming the sultan's retinue with baksheesh: "The hand you dare not bite, kiss it." Priming himself with a civil engineering degree at London's King's College, Calouste visited the Baku oilfields in 1888, and in his 20th year wrote an authoritative book on the Baku petroleum industry. It was the overture to decades of what Gulbenkian called "orchestrations" -concessions, mergers, consortia...
...dental defects, said Dr. Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth loosen and may fall...
...only a question of time before he had permission to shuck his soutane and go to work on the oldest profession. He never lectures his girls. "Moral strictures serve for nothing," he explains. "I am like a fisherman with his line-it is impossible to persuade the fish to bite; they must do that themselves if they like the bait. What is necessary is to give these women the consciousness of human dignity. Then one bright day they change their way of life themselves...
Corporations continued to feel the bite of the recession in their first-quarter profits. U.S. Steel reported first-quarter earnings off 46% ($1.04 a share v. last year's $2.09), and Inland Steel was off 46% ($1.40 a share v. $2.59). Steel production was down to about 47% of capacity last week, only about half of last year's production for the same period. The fact that steel continued to show a worthwhile profit while operating so low was a strong tribute to the industry's efficiency...