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...liked to say Palestinians "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity"--Eban was resolutely dovish, advocating an early land-for-peace deal. More popular with Jews abroad than with Israelis, many of whom were put off by his intellectualism, he also wrote several books, including the 1984 best seller Heritage: Civilization and the Jews...
...probably never met Myrtle Potter, but you may have taken some of the medicines she has marketed. At Merck in the early 1990s, her name became legend when she took charge of a struggling ulcer remedy called Prilosec and transformed it into a worldwide best seller. At Bristol-Myers Squibb in the late '90s, she worked the same magic on billion-dollar brands like Pravachol (for high cholesterol) and Glucophage (for diabetes). Today Potter, 44, is the COO of the world's No. 2 biotech firm, Genentech, where she's working to bring 20 drugs to market over the next...
...that there are some games that you don't play to win. You just play to play. In fact, Wright's games don't end; they just keep going. Wright ended up starting his own company and publishing SimCity himself in 1989. It became an instant best seller, earning him some very real, nonsimulated cash...
...aquatics camps use the boats for their activities, most simply resell them. Often the donation takes the form of a so-called bargain sale: the owner sells the boat to a charity at half its value or less. The difference in price is considered a donation, giving the seller a big tax write-off. The charity then makes money when it resells the boat. The practice has drawn scrutiny from the irs, which has issued new rules to prevent donors from overestimating the value of their cars and boats for the tax benefit. Some charities, too, are concerned--that owners...
...book sales even higher. Martel, a Canadian, won the Booker award for Life of Pi, the story of a shipwrecked boy who shares a lifeboat with a tiger. The book was released in the U.S. in June and ranks No. 23 on this week's New York Times best-seller list. In the Author's Note, Martel acknowledges that the "spark" for his novel was ignited by reading a review of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's 1981 novel, Max and the Cats, in which a shipwrecked boy is trapped in a boat with a panther. Scliar, left, thinks his idea...