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...businessmen, whose names he promises to plant on newfound territories. He even lends his name to an Antarctic-themed dog-food ad. He finds funding, a ship--the Endurance--and a crew, selling them on their chances despite the encroachment of World War I and a thickening ice pack. And after the ship gets trapped in the ice, he uses his dogged charisma to lead 27 freezing men as they trudge and paddle for months through the polar wastes toward rescue...
Harvard has fallen back into the pack...
...make sense since they defeat the music player's portability. The brilliance of the rad-looking Ellula Hotair speakers ($50) is that they're inflatable: blow them up and they're about nine inches high; deflate them and they're a mere two inches. The air-filled casings pack an audio punch. And the speakers pack neatly in your coat pocket. --By Roy B. White
...taking no chances. "Kuchma sent word out to local authorities," says Ukrainian journalist Olexi Stepura. "In towns where Tymoshenko's bloc wins, the mayors will be fired." Politics as usual, in other words. The elections may help Kuchma stay afloat and could even help a successor emerge from the pack. But there is little likelihood that they will help Ukraine emerge from the margins of Europe...
...very large, you do a spin-off," says Paul Gibbs, head of M and A research at J.P. Morgan in London. A spin-off is essentially giving a unit to shareholders. But because spin-offs are tax-free transactions in most European countries, they can pack benefits for shareholders and companies alike. Kingfisher even managed to recoup $1.4 billion from its Woolworths spin-off by selling the physical stores to a property manager, who in turn leased them back to the new, independent Woolworths. The third option is the carve-out. That's when a parent company floats a portion...