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Fidelity Investments remains the 800-pound gorilla of the mutual fund world, with $1.1 trillion of assets under management. But fund companies like Vanguard and American Funds are growing faster, which is why Fidelity this week intensified its makeover by replacing the manager of its most visible fund, the $52 billion colossus Magellan. Market-lagging Robert Stansky, who had headed the fund since 1996, has been replaced by Harry Lange, former manager of the Fidelity Capital Appreciation Fund...
Michel Bord, the CEO of Pernod Ricard USA. It's about the transformational growth of a French spirits company born of wormwood and anise to a "gentlemanly" global gorilla with a premium portfolio of wines and spirits centered on 14 major brands...
...healthy adults to name as many animals or fruits as they could in one minute. Those with dementia came up with not only fewer words but simpler ones that they learned earlier in childhood, like cat or dog. Healthy adults mentioned slightly less typical terms like hippopotamus, gorilla and giraffe...
American Naturalist Dian Fossey often said that she preferred the gentle mountain gorillas she studied and lived among to the people who have made the creatures an endangered species. Perhaps fittingly, she was buried last week in the gorilla graveyard she had carved out of a lush, misty hillside in Rwanda, the central African country where the last of the mountain gorillas live...
...camp in the Virunga Mountains, where she had lived on and off since 1967. No arrests have been made, but authorities believe the killer was someone who knew her. Fossey was often at odds with the local population, especially poachers, who sell the heads, hands and feet of mountain gorillas as curios and ashtrays. The rare primates, which have not been able to survive in captivity, now number only about 240. Fossey was a vigilant protector of her research subjects; in 1980 she reportedly abducted the child of a local woman suspected of stealing a baby gorilla, then offered...