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...risks has served Sawiris well, even if he has had to take some hard knocks, Middle East--style. One of his first ventures beyond Egypt was in strife-torn Algeria, where his successful 2001 bid for a cell-phone license turned out to be twice that of his nearest competitor, which led to the creation of an operator called Djezzy. Soon he had turned Orascom's $400 million investment into an asset worth some $4 billion. Later, in 2003, it was the same story in Iraq: Orascom set up the country's first cell-phone network, IraQna, after the fall...
...defects that predispose to cystic fibrosis and other diseases led to his succeeding double-helix discoverer James Watson as head of a 2,400-scientist, multination project to map all 3.1 billion biochemical letters that constitute the human blueprint. In 2000, Bill Clinton honored Collins and his private-sector competitor Craig Venter in the White House, crediting their complementary genome work with uncovering "the language in which God created life." (See pictures of America's pastor Billy Graham...
Einstein also took time off from furiously revising his equations to engage in an awkward fandango with his competitor Hilbert. Worried about being scooped, he sent Hilbert a copy of his Nov. 4 lecture. "I am curious whether you will take kindly to this new solution," Einstein noted with a touch of defensiveness...
...Kazakhstan and Oman, which operates a 1,500-km oil pipeline from western Kazakhstan to a marine terminal in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Putin endorsed the idea. The transfer of ownership is likely to enrage the CPC's other owners, who view Transneft as a competitor. People familiar with the consortium's internal discussions say that the Russians have not yet officially proposed an ownership transfer. CPC executives couldn't be reached for comment. A spokesman for Chevron, which has the biggest private-sector involvement in the consortium, declined to comment and a spokesman for Mobil, which...
...terms, there's no way the body has had time to evolve into this," Fackler says. Baker says the future of rides lies in more interactive innovation. That's fortunate for Disney, which, despite appearances as a result of the rash of tragedies, has never sought to be a competitor in the bigger, faster, scarier race, but rather has staked its claim to the highly immersive, story-telling experience...