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...toward recovery - and his increasingly central role both in the holding company's day-to-day management and the dynasty's long-term destiny - Elkann decided to give his first-ever extensive interview. Over the course of several encounters in Turin and Rome, he spoke with Time about his rapid rise in Italy's leading business family, Fiat's struggle to adapt to a shifting global playing field, and a young man's relationship with his famous silver-haired grandfather. The death of this formidable figure and of Gianni's younger brother Umberto Agnelli, both from cancer within...
...examiners presented patient scenarios in rapid-fire sequence. A 45-year-old woman with persistent headaches. A 60-year-old man with unrelenting facial pain. A three-year-old child who has never been able to walk. We had to study the data, ask the right questions and make on-the-spot diagnoses. Our interlocutors had finely tuned poker faces and were instructed to give absolutely no feedback. I had no idea if they thought I was the greatest neurosurgeon who ever lived or totally out to lunch...
...argues Skilling, but they must invest in "sticky" assets (unlike graduates who easily find their way to Sydney, Hong Kong and London) and keep the "action at home." One advantage that New Zealand has over Australia is that it can move very quickly; its size and government structures allow rapid deployment. If the world is not as flat as Thomas Friedman has envisioned, then resources will continue to flow to the engines of world capitalism. Take note, ye Australians with your fat tax cuts, new cars and McMansions?and heed the warning of the little Kiwi bird...
...creating a new country, you have to visit places that few foreigners have heard of--places like Mangalore. Back in 1991, when I left, about 300,000 people lived there. Since then its population has doubled. But that doesn't begin to describe its transformation. A decade of rapid growth has produced shopping centers and high-rise apartments--and most of the construction has taken place in the past five years. Old houses have been uprooted, replaced by bars and restaurants. The city's first multiplex cinema is about to open. A giant Smirnoff poster in the center of town...
...alarmed by the new killer bug. "We're out here waving our arms, trying to get everyone's attention," says Dr. Robert Daum, director of the University of Chicago's pediatric infectious-disease program, who was one of the first to call attention to the rapid spread of MRSA, back in 1998. "People talk about bird flu, but this is here...