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...activity in progressive affairs dates back to her time in Cambridge. As a Harvard undergraduate, Goodman was involved in the divestment campaign from South Africa and played a role in the revival of Seven Sisters, a feminist magazine. Her anthropology thesis examining the dangers of Depot Provera, a contraceptive with widespread use in the developing world despite it’s banning in the United States, was featured in Multinational Monitor...
...sweet memories of summer. Just a few weeks ago, Telecom Italia's dashing chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera boarded Rupert Murdoch's private yacht off the Greek island of Zakynthos, seeking to buy media content from the Aussie-born mogul for Telecom's broadband service. Even more enticing was the possibility that Murdoch might want a stake in the [an error occurred while processing this directive] Italian company's mobile-phone unit, which would help lift it out of its €41 billion debt. At the very least, said Tarak Ben Ammar, Murdoch's go-to guy in Italy: "The water...
...side," says Derrick Jones, the outreach coordinator for National Teens for Life, which was formed in the mid-'80s and has been drafting young members ever since. The pro-life cause has also received a boost from technology. The morning-after pill and new forms of contraception like Depo-Provera have made surgical abortion that much rarer, and high-resolution sonogram images have made an embryo's first moments that much more real...
...selling Sony PlayStation WRC game is based on them. The teams too are impressed with the information they are getting back from the system. Previously they sent staff members out with stopwatches to time runs. Now they can stay at the service park and receive far more information. Corrado Provera, boss of the Peugeot team, relishes the improvement. Says he: "The engineers are cutting the stages in many slices and analyzing why the drivers are faster or slower." In addition to introducing the new technology, Richards set about reforming the championship's sometimes haphazard organization. With the often reluctant agreement...
...interview with the International Herald Tribune, Tronchetti Provera acknowledged as much, but hinted that he would streamline "the cascading holding companies [that] are an inheritance from the past." His initial vision for the group certainly seems future-oriented. Shortly after the deal was announced, he laid out plans for Pirelli to sell its truck-tire...