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...billion Amount in stock that investing guru Warren Buffett pledged in June to charity...
DIED. Allen Carr, 72, onetime accountant and five-pack-a-day smoker who, in 1983, gave up cigarettes and fashioned himself into a smoking-cessation guru, penning the best seller The Easy Way to Stop Smoking; of lung cancer; near Malaga, Spain. Carr believed smoking was less physically addictive than usually thought and that the main obstacle to quitting was psychological. He later applied his fear-conquering strategies to other concerns, writing books on the easy way to stop worrying and to control alcohol consumption...
...DIED. Allen Carr, 72, onetime accountant and five-packs-a-day smoker who, in 1983, gave up cigarettes and fashioned himself into a smoking-cessation guru, penning the best-seller The Easy Way to Stop Smoking; of lung cancer; near Malaga, Spain. Carr believed smoking was less physically addictive than usually thought, and that the main obstacle to quitting was psychological. He later applied his fear-conquering strategies to other concerns, writing books on the easy way to stop worrying and to control alcohol consumption...
Further pressuring cellular, new network operators who specialize in WiMax are popping up like hot spots at coffee shops. Seattle-based Clearwire is run by former cellular zealot turned WiMax guru Craig McCaw, while others include Irish Broadband in Ireland, Wimax Telecom in Eastern Europe and Unwired in Australia. "It's like a big landgrab," says Ryan Jarvis, founder and chief executive of London-based WiMax start-up Macropolitan. Fixed-line telephone and broadband providers including Softbank in Japan, and BT and Pipex in the U.K., are also getting in on the act. A wireless WiMax network could help fixed...
...decade ago and cut back on grape yields. "It was a radical change, and some people thought we were mad," Pierre says. Francis Egly in Ambonnay is one of the most successful of these new producers; his Pinot Noir?based Blanc des Noirs caught the attention of American wine guru Robert Parker, who lists Egly-Ouriet, tel: (33-326) 57 00 70, as one of the top Champagne houses. Like Anselme Selosse of Jacques Selosse, tel: (33-326) 57 53 56, in Avize, Egly is struggling to keep up with demand; he only produces 100,000 bottles a year. Making...