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...Shriners sponsor 22 hospitals scattered throughout America that provide free burn and orthopedic treatment to children...
...months. The game used to be about building a virtual Roman Empire, all glorious acquisitions and land-grabs. Now it's about building a Monaco, a tiny but incredibly profitable niche nation. Companies that don't understand the need to change direction--in geekspeak, the phrase is "turn and burn"--are doomed...
...being at the right junction of Silicon Valley's Route 101 at the right time, no longer applies. Says Tony Perkins, editor of Red Herring magazine: "No one is going to become a billionaire in the Internet era without deserving it anymore." Or earning, through decades of turn and burn, an inescapable engineer gravity. The revolution is dead; long live the evolution...
...remaining candidate, known as repifermin, is currently in FDA-approved clinical trials for patients with skin ulcers, ulcerative colitis and mucosal damage due to chemotherapy, and may be expanded to burn and smoke-inhalation sufferers. And while most scientists disagree with his iconoclastic views, Haseltine is getting results: besides repifermin, his firm has three drugs in clinical trials and expects to add two or three more next year. That puts HGS far ahead of any other company...
...finally, my favorite--because not only does it force them to exercise more but it also allows me to exercise less. "Chores," he said, "are great." It turns out that a 90-lb. person who washes dishes for 5 min. burns 7 calories (compared to a measly 3 while watching TV). This same person will burn 11 vacuuming. Or 17 weeding. It's a beautiful world when your children complain about carrying groceries up the stairs (27 calories) and you can reply in that calm mom voice that drives them crazy, "It's for your own good...