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...cancer, he insists, hasn't changed him. But it has changed his life. Eating with Grove most days is like a trip to a vegan commune--tofu, veggies, five servings of fruit a day, a palmful of antioxidant pills. He continues to dig through prostate-cancer research and sits on the board of CapCure, Michael Milken's prostate-cancer foundation. Last spring Grove uncovered a yet-to-be published study showing a link between calcium intake and the spread of prostate cancer to the rest of the body. He rushed to the CapCure doctors and persuaded them to reduce...
...tests every four months now. "It's an unusual thing. Most cancers don't have scorecards," he says. "But here you go and give blood, and a day later, they tell you the rest of your life basically." Andy Grove, face to face with death three times a year. Surely he must love this. "I worry about it the last month of the four. It's not logical, but it's very observable and real. When I enter the month of the test, my stress notches up. And then as I get closer, I get more nervous. And then when...
...children could have told you that years ago. Grove has always been fully flushed with fatherhood. "He was a wonderful father," recalls his older daughter. Says his younger: "Being Andy Grove's child isn't for the faint of heart. But if you can roll with it, it's great." Case in point: Grove always worked to include the kids in his business travel. But he made the girls write reports on the countries they were visiting: Italy, Spain, England. A nickel a page. "That's how we'd get our spending money," recalls a daughter. "Luckily, my grandparents would...
...marriage to Eva--the daughters call her "Eva the Saint"--has been the essential constant in Grove's life. He is clearly still nuts about her. There is a world-worn gentleness in their touch. She takes care of him: lays out his breakfast, orders the small details of his life, helps him find whatever he needs. Grove's big eyes--which in meetings can penetrate the skull of an unprepared executive at 50 ft.--are at their softest when he rests them...
...them are still trying to figure out what to do with all their money. The wealth is a surprise. Eva recalls the day when Grove got options in 1968: "I had higher hopes for Intel than he did. When he got his first options, I thought, 'Hmm. If that gets to be $100, then...' And he said, 'Ach! It's never going to be $100." Try $10,000. The Groves today are worth north of $300 million...