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...time in meetings, answering e-mail from employees and colleagues around the world or talking on his mobile phone, pausing only occasionally to take in the stunning view of Nairobi 16 floors below. Like most cyber-ceos, Makatiani is in a constant hurry to stake out an ever-larger chunk of online turf, build his company's brand and make money. He travels across Africa, to Europe or to the U.S. every other week, runs to relieve stress and grabs short-break holidays on the Kenyan coast with his wife when he can. But while he may exhibit...
...good description of the 880 members of the Los Angeles cooperative, three-quarters of whom have AIDS. The rest suffer from cancer, multiple sclerosis or other diseases, and all have marijuana prescriptions fromm licensed physicians. Leanne Orgen, 46, an insurance broker with liver cancer, buys pot-laced chocolate-chunk brownies--a "miracle drug" for chemotherapy-induced nausea, she says. Jeffrey Farrington, 32, who has glaucoma, explains that if he stops smoking marijuana, which relieves ocular pressure, he loses more than 7 ft. of vision daily. "If they shut us down," he says, "I'll go blind and I'll watch...
...young stars show off their skills?because of outsized obligations to the Olympic squad. This time around, though, the decision turned less on national politics than simple economics. In exchange for releasing their imposing center, the Shanghai Sharks wanted an estimated 30% of Yao's salary and a good chunk of his endorsements, which could eventually reach $100 million over four years. No deal was reached. Now, Yao will languish another year in the Chinese basketball league, where middling competition could blunt his budding talents. Says a source close to the failed talks: "Greed killed Yao's hopes...
This is part of Nintendo's bid to lose the kids-only label and grab a chunk of the elusive twentysomething market. "We're doing more to attract these audiences," admits Miyamoto. Not that the company is dissing its core tiny-tot gamers. Witness the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo's new handheld, which will serve a dual purpose as a controller for the GameCube...
Police overtime charges constituted the largest chunk of the protest's costs, with HUPD officers working double shifts throughout the protest...