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...many of these dynasties--and of Europe's economy. Like Ernesto Bertarelli, many of the heirs are better educated and more international in their outlook than their parents were, and they are leading their firms in new directions. The Barillas of Italy have built a pasta plant in Ames, Iowa, and recently bought a German bread company. The Ottos of Germany (Eddie Bauer, Crate & Barrel) are investing heavily in e-commerce. France's Lagardere family is becoming an international media heavyweight...
Every weekday morning, Iowa City's most famous resident steps into his 1986 Jeep Cherokee and drives two miles from his home to the University of Iowa campus. He enters Van Allen Hall, makes his way to his cluttered office, checks his e-mail and begins poring over data. At 88, physicist James Van Allen still revels in exposing the secrets of nature--45 years after making the first significant discovery of the space...
...office," she says. "He has so many ideas, he realizes that the time is short, and he worries that he won't get all his ideas written up." That leaves little time to socialize, and Van Allen confines his outside activities to monthly meetings of the Club, an Iowa City men's discussion group, and to occasional travel, during which he and Abbie visit their five children and seven grandchildren, scattered in cities from Vancouver to Princeton, N.J. He eschews games and exercise, calling recreation "a nuisance, as opposed to doing something of a thoughtful nature." Despite his sedentary lifestyle...
Blum said the University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic and State University and Iowa State University have also recently changed the admissions policies of similar programs...
...season began auspiciously against eventual tournament winner Northern Iowa, when Crimson tri-captain and reigning all-Ivy Player of the Year Tiffany Whitton added to her all-time homerun record, smacking the first pitch she saw over the fence...