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After all, we have been down this road before. When scientists reported in the mid-1990s that the absence of a hormone called leptin triggered the development of some very fat mice, it seemed that a cure for obesity was finally at hand. If these fat mice didn't make enough leptin, the reasoning went, then maybe fat people didn't make enough either. Would giving them leptin make them thin? The logic was so compelling that the pharmaceuticals firm Amgen reportedly paid tens of millions of dollars for development rights. It turned out, however, that most fat people...
...Rudolph ensured consistency by providing the mix to each franchise and creating specially designed machines to automate the doughnut-making process. Beatrice Foods bought the company in 1976, three years after Rudolph's death, and the franchisees took control in 1982. Expansion beyond its Dixie roots began in the mid-1990s. New York got its first Krispy Kreme just six years ago. Before its 2000 flotation, "it was basically run like a co-op by the franchisees," notes Andrew Wolf, an analyst at BB&T Capital Markets. It's still considered a highly conservative company that treads cautiously into...
...liquor empire, Edgar Bronfman Jr. has faced his share of skeptics. One of the first, in fact, was his grandfather Samuel, a Russian immigrant to Canada who advanced from Prohibition bootlegger to spirits magnate, owner of a portfolio that included Chivas Regal Scotch and Captain Morgan rum. In a mid-1990s documentary about the family, Edgar Jr. recalled his grandfather saying, "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. I'm worried about the third generation." Such doubts didn't seem to faze Edgar Jr., who years ago declared, "I'm not going down in history as the one Bronfman who pissed...
While the sharks rule the depths and mankind clings precariously to the surface, the albatross owns the air above the sea. In the mid-1990s, when scientists first started tagging albatrosses for tracking via satellite, they discovered something astonishing: albatrosses spend 95% of their lives over the ocean, and most of that flying. Albatrosses have the longest wingspan on earth, and they can stay aloft continuously for years, dozing on the wing. In Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival--ignore the sappy subtitle--Carl Safina follows a single bird as it roams the globe gathering food...
...former Chicago gang member, or Reid, a drifter from south London. "If your goal is finding people able and willing to support or plan illegal acts," says a senior French law-enforcement official, "criminals are an obvious choice." The French should know; many of those involved in the mid-1990s wave of bombings in France orchestrated by the Armed Islamic Group were street criminals who had converted to radical Islam. Islamic terrorist leaders, says a French justice official, "go to the crook, the drug dealer, the troublemaker who hates the police, hates their lives, and say, 'Help us start...