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...much coveted fragrance brand Creed, maker of scents for the likes of Princess Grace. Emmanuel and Thomas have new titles, vice chairman and president, respectively, for the launch this year of a new fragrance and a luxury skin-care line, the latter in partnership with Brazilian plastic-surgery specialist Clinica Ivo Pitanguy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People to Watch in International Business | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...evokes across Sicily through its code of silence, omertà - keeps Provenzano out of prison. There were reports that he checked into a clinic three years ago in the southern city of Agrigento for what some believe is a prostate illness. Aldo Piscopo, the medical director of the clinic, Clinica Sant'Anna, doesn't deny the possibility, but says: "How could we have known? We are busy here, and he obviously wouldn't walk in with an identity card with his name on it." Magistrate Prestipino knows that silence is the biggest obstacle to nabbing Provenzano. He also knows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sicily's Invisible Man | 8/29/2004 | See Source »

Helicoptered to San José, the guerrilla leader was taken to the city's most exclusive hospital. His men immediately turned Pastora's floor of the Clinica Biblica into a fortress, sealing off elevators and stationing heavily armed guards in the stairwells. Costa Rican authorities, anxious about their country's neutral status, placed Pastora in government custody; on Friday he was flown on a stretcher to Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Starting a New Chapter | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...sailor named Julio Luna Vera, 32, was brought into Ecuador's Clinica Guayaquil with a right hand so shattered by a grenade explosion that amputation was necessary. Dr. Roberto Gilbert Elizalde, 47, who had never done any transplant work, decided to try. He put a tourniquet on Luna's arm and cooled it with cracked ice. He had a donor: a 43-year-old laborer-also named Luna-who lay dying of internal hemorrhage in another Guayaquil hospital where his family gave permission for the transplant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Helping Hand | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...minor Liberal politicians died where they fell in the plaza; one other Liberal and a policeman were slightly wounded. Echandia's brother Vicente was rushed to the Clinica del Sagrado Corazon. There, two hours later, Dario Echandia saw his brother die. The funeral was held on the day that triumphant Conservatives were electing Laureano Gómez President. Nearly 25,000 Liberals marched in the cortege, and there were excited shouts of "Down with the dictatorship!" and "To the Palace!" But nobody went to the Palace; troops and tanks had closed off the streets four blocks away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Blood & Ballots | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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