Word: provera
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...catch him jumping off a yacht in his birthday suit, as one once did, well, that's news too. When Agnelli needs to tell the Prime Minister something, the P.M., whoever he may be, listens intently. But if Agnelli is the king, then the crown prince is Marco Tronchetti Provera, 53, chairman of Pirelli, the $4.5 billion tire and cable maker...
...Although he was not born into an illustrious family, Tronchetti Provera married into one. His 1978 marriage to Cecilia Pirelli ended in divorce, but that didn't seem to hurt his stance with father-in-law Leopoldo, who continued to appoint him to top jobs at the family firm. (Tronchetti Provera has since taken up with a Tunisian model-showgirl known to Italians simply as Afef.) The Pirelli chairman does not yet yield the same kind of power as Agnelli, but he's trying. He took a major step in that direction last month when, together with the Benettons...
...Colaninno. Pirelli and Benetton put together a $6 billion package that allowed them to buy 23% of Olivetti, which in turn owns 55% of Telecom Italia. Since they already owned nearly 4% of Olivetti, their share rose to 27%, with which they can control the telecom giant. Tronchetti Provera, who is credited with turning around Pirelli, had been sitting on $3.2 billion in cash after selling two optical technology firms to Cisco and Corning. For months the guessing game in Milan was what will Pirelli buy? "Telecom has a strong market position and we wanted to invest in telecoms...
...patch--still a year away from FDA approval--may be just as effective as the birth-control pill in preventing pregnancies, say researchers. The patch is changed once a week, so women don't have to remember to pop a pill every day. And unlike another Pill alternative--Depo-Provera injections, which last three months--the effect can be reversed simply by taking the patch...
...Pill and such newer, longer-lasting variants as the Norplant implant and the Depo-Provera injection do endure, however, still-effective survivors of a revolution that seems to be winding down...