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...themselves habitually. So why not you? We sought out people who switched courses late in life to pursue a dream that had been on hold for too long. And we found a country full of inspiring stories: the commercial fisherman who now surfs three months a year, the business exec who becomes a sculptor and the teacher turned activist. Everyone's dreams are different--like the former pilot who swam the English Channel--but just the idea of a dream can be powerful and contagious. As Goethe said, "Whatever you can do or dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, power...
...transformation soon after he took over in 2000, placing people from digitally dominant companies like General Electric and Lexmark International into top management posts. After his first COO, Patricia Russo, left to head up Lucent, he replaced her in April 2003 with Antonio Perez, 59, a former Hewlett Packard exec who had nursed its printer division into a $10 billion dynamo. "I think people will have more confidence in this strategy if they know Antonio is actively involved," says Carp, laughing...
...steadier," Tymoshenko says. "Once they acquire new opportunities, all the fears and confrontations will collapse like a house of cards." Still, some Western businessmen are uneasy. "Yushchenko will be flying around the world and she'll be running things in Kiev - and running circles around him," says one U.S. exec who does a lot of business in Ukraine. Even so, Yushchenko is likely to be much better off with Tymoshenko heading his Cabinet rather than leading the opposition...
...president of Orbitz.com Sands, 37, is taking the Chicago-based travel website global. The marketing exec was tapped for the top job when travel and real estate services giant Cendant bought Orbitz late last year. His first international step will be letting customers use foreign credit cards to book online, especially Europeans eager to travel to the U.S. because of the weak dollar. Sands also plans to roll out foreign-language sites and use Cendant's long-standing relationships with hotels and time shares overseas to give Americans more options. --By Barbara Kiviat
...then fade to black. You can raise the volume remotely if you have multimedia slides. You can do all that while roaming around a room --as much as 50 ft. from your laptop--because the device talks to a receiver plugged into the USB jack. For the long-winded exec, the Presenter has a timer that counts down, vibrating in your hand when time's almost up. Available at logitech.com in February, this little gizmo lacks just one thing--what paid-programming pitchmen call a low-low price. It will cost around...