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...understand the long-term thinking and the staying power of SIA, it's worth thinking back to those wines that were chosen late last year, including a 1999 Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, a Bordeaux that retails for upwards of $130, and a 1998 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Fay Vineyard Cabernet, an $85 Californian. Neither of them will be served on SIA's new U.S. flights this year. Instead, they will be cellared until 2005 or 2006, when they will have developed the right character for drinking. --With reporting by Douglas Wong/Singapore
...being a Harvard student.“Looking at the whole picture of college, it’s been incredible,” Van Niel says. “I really couldn’t have asked for anything more. It’s a little bit of a leap of faith to try to do all these things and keep all these balls in the air and more or less, I think I’ve been able to do that.”Even though the praise has only come recently, singing is nothing new for Van Niel...
...loved working closely with patients, it bothered him that he knew little about business, especially because he had begun to invest modestly in stocks. Four years of psychoanalysis, Vasella says, helped free him "from the rules and obligations one imposes on oneself" and give him the courage to leap into a new career. In 1987 he sought the advice of Max Link, the well-connected and accessible head of the drug business for Swiss conglomerate Sandoz. Vasella was offered a job and sent to learn the ropes at the company's headquarters in East Hanover...
...Black made publishing history at New York magazine when she became the first female publisher of a weekly consumer magazine. She then made a leap into newspapers in 1983, joining Al Neuharth, CEO of Gannett, and his fledgling newspaper USA Today. Like Ms., it was groundbreaking, but critics derisively called USA Today "McPaper." It ended up revolutionizing journalism, influencing a generation of newspapers and magazines with its colorful graphics and bite-size articles designed for television watchers. Neuharth, she says, was sometimes ruthless--something she tried never to be--but she admired his strategic vision. "He always had the bigger...
...behind in fourth. If you chart the rate of visits to social-networking sites against those to adult sites over the last two years, there appears to be a strong negative correlation (i.e., visits to social networks go up as visits to adult sites go down). It's a leap to say there's a real correlation there, but if there is one, then I'd bet it has everything to do with Gen Y's changing habits: they're too busy chatting with friends to look at online skin. Imagine. (Read "The iPhone's Next Frontier: Porn...