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Soros did his lightning-rod act again last month, giving $1 million to the Tides Foundation in San Francisco to finance needle exchanges for addicts. More than a third of new AIDS cases are related to contaminated needles. To him, needle exchange is a no-brainer of an issue: it...
Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and the latter's son Russell motored into Plymouth [Vt.] and stopped at the Coolidge farmhouse. The President took them through the local cheese factory, of which his father is part owner, and gave Mr. Ford a sap bucket of pine with ash...
Let's just follow the bouncing ball. Price is an activist investor who has made millions buying large chunks of companies and then fomenting change to boost the stock price. He forced the merger of Chase and Chemical banks in 1995. He is currently engaged in a public battle with...
What most people don't realize is that it almost never happens. In a particularly bad year, as many as 100 people may be attacked by sharks. Of those attacks, a small minority--15% at most--prove fatal. Far more people are killed by bees, poisonous snakes and elephants, as...
In fact, Frist and the rest of the board had begun to fear for the survival of Columbia (1996 revenues: $19.9 billion), which has long been a lightning rod for critics of for-profit hospitals. Directors were worried that Scott's stonewalling of federal probes of Columbia's Medicare billings...