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Street Creds: Former Goldman, Sachs & Co. Co-Chairman; helped to found the National Economic Council; member of boards of Mount Sinai-NYU Health, the Edmond Safra Foundation, Ford Motor Company and Rockefeller Family Trust; member of United States Council on Foreign Relations...
...International Steel Group (ISG). The deal, which must still gain regulatory approval, would create the world's biggest steel company, Mittal Steel, to be based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and help Mittal pursue his modest goal of making Mittal as synonymous with steel as Ford is with the motor car. The new company could produce up to 10% of the world's steel and, as Mittal predicts, will "dramatically change the landscape of the global steel industry. [It] provides Mittal Steel with a more significant presence in important industrialized economies such as those in North America and Europe...
...villas feature infinity pools and ocean views. Guests have the use of a fleet of luxury motor yachts and an adjacent golf club. But the real draws will be the resort's 1,500-sq-m spa (opening in December) and its destination restaurants. The latter-one Thai, one Mediterranean-are presided over by chef Sven Krauss, formerly of the Sukhothai Bangkok hotel and co-author of The Food of Thailand: Authentic Recipes from the Golden Kingdom, a best-selling cookbook in the U.S. Needless to say, none of this comes cheap-introductory rates, valid until Nov. 30, start from...
...easy, what with 35,000 genes consisting of 3.2 billion chemical bases. To narrow the field, Hamer confined his work to nine specific genes known to play major roles in the production of monoamines--brain chemicals, including serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine, that regulate such fundamental functions as mood and motor control. It's monoamines that are carefully manipulated by Prozac and other antidepressants. It's also monoamines that are not so carefully scrambled by ecstasy, LSD, peyote and other mind-altering drugs--some of which have long been used in religious rituals...
...Michael Porter, with a story about the president’s time in the class. Porter, now Harvard’s Lawrence University Professor, was doing an interview for the New York Times and immediately recalled Bush when Schroer recounted a tale about his strategy to revive a sagging motor home company. Schroer joked that the company should use blimps...