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...will,'" says Sydney neurologist Matthew Kiernan. "The specialist didn't like looking after these patients because he knew he had nothing to offer them." There were cracks of light in the 1990s, when researchers implicated a genetic mutation in a small subset of MND patients, and the pharmaceutical company Rhone-Poulenc Rorer launched riluzole (Rilutek), the first - and still only - drug approved for treating the disease. But no one was fooled into thinking that MND was anywhere near beaten...
Rosenblum’s guide on his European adventures is Chloe Doutre-Roussel, a French chocoholic who once scaled the wall of Valrhona’s Rhone Valley factory in order to catch a glimpse of production at her nation’s most secretive chocolatier...
GENEVA Conservative Swiss women are rushing to Celine on the Rue du Rhone to check out the black-and-white tweed Ella ($1,210), inspired by style icons like Audrey Hepburn...
...love with a plot of very rocky soil, Cristophe Baron moved from the Champagne region of France to Walla Walla, Wash. (home of the sweet onion), in 1993. Today, as the state's only biodynamic (uberorganic) winemaker, he is producing plump, cultworthy Syrah, the noble grape of the northern Rhone, under his label, Cayuse...
Fourtou, a connoisseur of Bordeaux wine, was in his early 60s and cruising comfortably toward retirement after 16 years as head of the pharmaceutical firm Rhone-Poulenc, now part of Aventis. But the Vivendi board was desperate to find a respected executive to calm the company. Fourtou, who is 64, initially resisted but has since performed brilliantly. He has sold off about $12 billion in assets--not including Universal--and reshaped Vivendi around its telecommunications, music and French TV businesses. Those pieces don't make a great strategic fit, his critics point out, but Vivendi is a far more manageable...