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...BRIGITTE RAAB AND MANUELA OLTEN...
Every woman should own a strand of pearls, especially now that they're affordable. PurePearls.com is part of a growing crop of Internet-based wholesalers selling Fifth Avenue--quality freshwater and cultured pearls at eBay prices. Run by Amanda Raab, 25, the site also teaches consumers about the different types of pearls and how they're farmed and graded. Prices start at $27 for freshwater-pearl earrings and go up to $16,400 for a South Sea pearl necklace. Every piece comes with a certified GIA appraisal and a 90-day return policy. --By Betsy Kroll
Early this year G. Kirk Raab, the second in command at Abbott Laboratories, a large drug company, left to become president of Genentech. To prepare for the introduction of Protropin, Raab helped build a national marketing organization, which includes 15 hospital-based sales representatives with an average of 15 years' experience. Now Raab is working on plans to sell interferon and TPA (tissue plasminogen activator), a drug that dissolves blood clots and thus may help prevent heart attacks...
Just as the root causes of secondary infertility differ, so do reactions to it. Elizabeth Raab, 46, a Cataumet, Mass., geriatric case manager, is one of 12 children. It took her and her husband Michael, 41, a mechanical engineer, a year to conceive their first child, Michael Jr., in 1989. But after trying to have a second child for two years, Elizabeth realized she was undergoing early menopause. "I didn't want to believe that this could happen, since I came from such a large family and just figured that I would have a lot of kids," she says...
...just talk about what we were feeling [and] put everything into perspective. The bottom line was to enjoy our son as much as possible and focus on him and not the guilt or the pain." They adopted their second child, Alex, now 7, from Guatemala in November 1993. And Raab, with the help of Resolve, launched her own support group in 1991 in nearby Hyannis, just for those with secondary infertility...