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Asia's War with Heart Disease Having spent all my savings on my mother's three-stent angioplasty, I recognize the timeliness of your warnings about the rising death toll from cardiovascular disease [May 10]. As an heir apparent to heart trouble, I have taken a cue from this article and have started working seriously on my diet and on controlling diabetes and hypertension. In addition, your story made me quit smoking-something I've been trying to do for years! K. Chidanand Kumar Bangalore, India...
Glaeser “is the heir to Becker in that he has applied economics to explain all manner of human behavior,” Dartmouth Economist Bruce I. Sacerdote wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...server software. Those last two are marginally profitable; the others are optimistic bets on the future. Says Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox: "It's like dealing with two giants and five pygmies." Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's vice president of worldwide sales, who is regarded by many as heir apparent to Ballmer, defends the reorganization: "The value we deliver comes from collaboration between the groups...
...investment operations. Who put her there? Her father Edward C. (Ned) Johnson III, whose own father founded the mutual-fund giant in 1946. So you could say she's had a comfort level most executives never enjoy. There's also the cushion of being worth nearly $10 billion as heir to the privately held Fidelity juggernaut. "She's cool and calm, and she works hard every day," says Eric Kobren, editor of the independent newsletter Fidelity Insight. "She doesn't have that air of being one of the richest people in the world." Or of managing one of the world...
...demonstrations continued, Ma distanced himself from Lien, insisting the party abide by a recount long before Lien reluctantly agreed. The move won Ma support from Taiwan's population, which saw him as a cool head in hot times, but irked party leaders intent on unity. Ma remains Lien's heir apparent for party chairman but suffers from the same problem as the rest of the trio. "Ma is out of the picture" as a future presidential candidate, says a former KMT Cabinet minister, because "he's not a native Taiwanese...