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...some point--perhaps soon--Bono may have to decide how hard he can keep pushing. Because he's one of the most energetic people on the planet, Bono rarely has a down moment, but on the rare occasions when he removes his sunglasses, thick scrolls of tissue are visible under his eyes. For months his exercise routine has been compromised by a prolapsed disk in his back. "It's annoying to me that I'm overweight now," he says. He speaks to his children every other day while he's on the road, a nontraditional arrangement but one they...
...expresses himself on a grand scale nightly, Bono is surprisingly stunted when it comes to talking about how he deals with the pressure he has brought upon himself. "I don't talk about this stuff to anybody," he says. "Of course, I don't talk about it to the band--it's boring enough for them onstage. When I go home, I don't want to talk about it. When I'm with my mates, I just don't. I think about it, and I allow occasionally enough time to think about it in moments of reflection...
...might be possible to imagine Bono shedding his title as the world's greatest activist and reverting to his previous role as its biggest rock star--except that his happiness and peace of mind so obviously depend on being both. After the disappointment in Ottawa, Bono spent four days in Acapulco with absolutely nothing important to do and returned to the road a new man. "I'm like a camel. I store up sleep in my hump," he says. U2's never-ending Vertigo tour has come to Boston, and from his palatial suite he has the panorama...
...Gateses say their smartest investment yet has been GAVI. This year, when five European nations backed them up with an unprecedented $4 billion over 10 years to fund GAVI's work, it was all about leverage. At Davos, Bill Gates and Bono had tag-team meetings with Blair, Schröder and other leaders, using the example of one as peer pressure for the other. Bill remembers talking to Bono between meetings and telling him he wasn't sure Schröder would come around. Bono was undeterred. "I tend to be a little more realistic," Bill says. "He's always saying...
...Bono has been more right than wrong, something that still seems to amaze Bill. It's strange to hear him talk about Bono. Bill is not easily impressed; if you're not talking to him at a very high level about science or business, you're wasting his time, and he lets you know it. (In our first interview, he didn't look at me for 15 minutes. Melinda fielded the soft questions he couldn't bear to handle, as she often does.) But Bono talks about global problems on a very high level, and one gets the sense their...