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...difficulties in men--not surprising, since you're manipulating the body's circulatory hydraulics. When people face a disease that causes no symptoms and a treatment that does, it's no surprise which one they sometimes choose. "You prescribe medication," says Weber, "and within a year, 50% of people quit taking...
...mullahs continue to hold sway, it seems unlikely that Iran will give up its nuclear dreams, any more than it would make peace with the Great Satan it broke with 25 years ago in November. Ali Larijani, the leading pragmatic conservative presidential candidate, has hinted that Iran might quit the NPT if the nuclear talks with Europe fail--a move that would give Washington justification to push for U.N. sanctions. Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani, loyal to the clerics, warns that Iran would retaliate in the event of an attack and could mount a pre-emptive strike if military commanders calculated...
...errors in presentations. "I expected him to say, 'Your numbers are wrong,'" Ferraris recalls. "Instead, he said, 'Eight billion, 11 billion, 14 billion--it's all the same.'" Stunned, Ferraris urged Tanzi to call a meeting with the company's banks to explain the debt problem. Tanzi refused, Ferraris quit, and a few weeks later, on Dec. 19, Europe's biggest corporate scam was exposed. Parmalat confirmed that an account it had claimed to have at Bank of America with $4.9 billion in cash did not, in fact, exist...
...hard to avoid these days. Ma is the founder and CEO of Tencent Holdings, which operates China's largest instant-messaging service, with 355 million users. In June, Tencent made an IPO in Hong Kong. While many recent China issues have flopped, Tencent shares are up 58%. Ma quit his job at a paging company in 1998 and, with four friends and total combined savings of $120,000, started the company. Ma did just about everything himself, from designing websites to mopping the floor. Tencent's break came in 1999, when it launched its QQ instant-messaging service. Today, despite...
Dartboard has been thefacebook.com-free since Sunday and, unlike that poor soul from the Independent who nearly went insane trying to quit AIM, he couldn’t be happier...