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Michael Beschloss AUTHOR OF REACHING FOR GLORY: THE SECRET LYNDON JOHNSON TAPES...
...most powerful message can come from the un-likeliest messenger. When Nkosi Johnson, an 11-year-old South African with AIDS, walked onto the stage at an international aids conference in Durban last year, he hardly seemed able to hold the microphone, let alone address 10,000 delegates. The shiny black suit he wore hung from a body ravaged by disease. The belt around his waist had six extra holes punched in it. He wore a diaper in case of diarrhea. Lit by a fearsome spotlight, the tiny figure paused for a few seconds, took a deep breath and began...
Drug companies Novartis and Johnson & Johnson have set up venture funds to ensure access to the latest technologies. This fall Eli Lilly joined their ranks with a $75 million biotech fund. And IT firms such as IBM and Compaq are getting involved. IBM works in partnership with investment banks like Boston's Oxford Bioscience Partners to provide funds for promising start-ups. Says Carol Kovac, general manager of IBM's life-sciences program: "We see this as the next major scientific revolution for the decade...
...Winners DAVID SOUL Hutch wins libel suit against journalist who called his play the worst ever without seeing it. Funny, we almost made that call AIR VICE-MARSHAL "JOHNNIE" JOHNSON British WWII ace's medals posthumously sell for $345,200. Sensing an opportunity, Werner Klemperer's family auctions his monocle TEOFILA MARTINEZ Mayoress of Cadiz is offered a role in the new 007 movie. Rudy Giuliani was passed over despite a fresh waxing and skimpy bikini Losers CARLY FIORINA HP CEO in trouble as Hewletts and Packards oppose Compaq merger. Undoubtedly both of them once owned Presarios MARTHA STEWART...
...Nkosi Johnson As South Africa's President, Thabo Mbeki responded to his nation's AIDS epidemic with denial and rationalizations, it took a 12-year-old boy infected through his mother to claim humanity for millions of his sick countrymen. Johnson was abandoned by his mother and first met his father at her funeral, but before his own death on June 1, he showed more courage than any elected official, laying down a challenge - "care for us and accept us" - that, if ignored, will imperil Africa's future...