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...arrived with his family in January 1998, his mission was simple: scout the region and find a single 120-acre plot where Mondavi could produce 240,000 bottles of top-quality wine each year. After two years of road trips, wine tasting and geological surveying, he settled on a patch of scrub-covered hillside on the Massif de l'Arboussas, above the village of Aniane, about 15 miles northwest of the regional center of Montpellier. There was just one problem: the land belonged to the village. "French people wouldn't even think about doing something on common land," Pearson says...
...government than with classic boom-and-bust economics. In the late '90s, as the price of gas mirrored oil's downward spiral, few banks or drillers were willing to risk the capital to hunt for a practically worthless commodity. Now that the price has rebounded, the West Texas oil patch is hopping, with more rigs and prospectors hunting for gas than since...
...substantial portion of drugs taken orally, in pill or liquid form, is lost to digestive processes and removed by the liver, and what remains can irritate the intestinal tract. Enter transdermal patches. First designed to treat motion sickness, they slowly deliver drugs through the skin from a reservoir within the patch, and are being used increasingly to treat hypertension, angina and other disorders. So far, the patches are limited to carrying small-molecule drugs that can diffuse through the skin. But several teams are experimenting with electrical or ultrasonic devices that can also push larger-molecule drugs through the skin...
...some cases to levels undetectable by current tests. The only disadvantage to T-20 therapy at the moment is that it's an injection that needs to be given twice a day. But Trimeris is working on making the molecule easier to take, possibly as a skin patch...
...single mother of a small daughter, living in a two-room flat in Edinburgh, listening to mice skittering behind the walls. Now she is internationally famous and earning, according to various estimates, somewhere in the range of $30 million to $40 million a year. Once, during a bad patch, she dreaded the hostile looks she would attract while lining up at the local post office to claim her weekly income-support check. When she visited the U.S. and Canada in October, she stood, with 10,000 pairs of eyes on her, and gave a reading in the Toronto SkyDome. Nothing...