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MARTHA STEWART is ready for her lockup. Though she will continue to appeal her obstruction-of-justice conviction, the lifestyle entrepreneur asked a judge last week to let her start serving her five-month sentence immediately--ideally releasing her in time "to plant the new spring garden," she said at a news conference. Stewart lamented how she'll miss "my two beloved, fun-loving dogs, my seven lively cats, my canaries, my horses and even my chickens." Human beings may begin to interest Stewart more after she is forced to eat, bathe and sleep in close quarters with them...
...also rare for a North American to go to Germany to start a high-tech business; usually, the traffic in entrepreneurs goes the other way. Cenix demonstrates how far Germany has come over the past few years as it tries to promote the creation of science-based businesses and stem an outflow of its best minds to the U.S. Max Planck had been a "large, slow-moving beast," says Echeverri, but when the idea for Cenix was born, it was Max Planck that acted as the midwife and pushed Echeverri into becoming an entrepreneur. "Cenix Bioscience would never have come...
When a preschooler paints a masterpiece, it is usually hung on the family fridge. But eventually the artwork piles up in a box under the bed--or winds up in the Dumpster. But Chicago entrepreneur Angela Mendez has launched an ingenious service aimed at preserving children's creative efforts and eliminating clutter. Her business, Me, My Room and I, takes kids' artwork or poetry and turns it into collages, murals, wallpaper border or giant stickers. The art is scanned and then imaginatively transformed into custom-made keepsakes and decorations. Prices range from $88 for 12 ft. of customized wallpaper border...
Entrapped in his obsessions and compulsions, he eventually became the perfect American weirdo--all silences and unclipped toenails. But before that, Howard Hughes, at least as Martin Scorsese sees him, was the perfect American, period. He was rich. He was romantic. He was fearless. And as an inventor and entrepreneur, he was one of the past century's great visionaries. It is this Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who dominates The Aviator--recklessly crashing planes and cars, heedlessly wooing Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett), among others...
...assembly line, its appeal endures. The essential piece of any car collection, its appeal stretches well beyond France, with clubs active across Europe, Israel, Australia, the U.S. and Japan. The car has long been popular with visitors to France, and now Florent Dargnies, a 24-year-old entrepreneur, has started a touring company that ferries passengers in and around Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with...