Word: entrepreneur
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...porch crowded with youths, injuring three of them; on charges of first-degree murder; in Chicago. Some 100 people are believed to have stood by and watched while the suspects, all gang members, pummeled the motorists with their hands, feet, bricks and stones. DIED. HARRY QUADRACCI, 66, philanthropist and entrepreneur who started a tiny company in an abandoned factory and turned it into the $2 billion-a-year Quad/Graphics, printer of TIME, Newsweek, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other magazines and catalogs; in an accidental drowning; in Pine Lake, near his home in Chenequa...
...Advanced Tissue Sciences, where she developed the first temporary skin substitute based on human tissue, which has aided burn victims in North America, Europe and Africa. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born scientist, now 46 and the mother of three, is once again breaking ground. She became the first woman biotech entrepreneur to lead a major U.S. business school when the one at San Diego State named her its dean...
...contemporary Chinese entrepreneur Matthew Ho, who narrates the final section of the novel, Lanchester manages to create a character even more restrained than Tom. Matthew ably illustrates the complexities of running a Hong Kong business after the 1997 handover, but makes such a light impression that he threatens to disappear from the page. As a result, the novel ends with a whimper...
...took something more, a pre-eminent theological entrepreneur, to bring a wider American audience to the apocalyptic tradition. Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth, published in 1970, became the best-selling nonfiction book of its decade; TIME called Lindsey "the Jeremiah of our generation" for his detailed argument that the end was approaching. "That's the first book I ever read about last days, and it changed my life," says George Morrison, pastor of Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colo., where average Sunday-morning attendance is 4,000. "All of a sudden, I was made aware that...
...center of the latest greedfest is Sam Waksal, an immunologist who turned into a dazzling biotechnology entrepreneur. In 1984 he founded ImClone, a little-known company until it made headlines for an apparent success with a cancer treatment called Erbitux in 1999. Waksal, 54, was always as much salesman as scientist and employed his reputation and charm as a ladder into elite circles that included home-decor guru Stewart, Mick Jagger, actress Mariel Hemingway, financier Carl Icahn and Dr. John Mendelsohn, the cancer-drug pioneer and former Enron board member. Waksal's eclectic posse combined science and celebrity with stock...