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...plane was "painted," meaning that the Serbian military's antiaircraft system had got the plane in its target sight. Talbott's flight crew immediately began to swoop violently and dive the plane to make it harder to hit, tossing a few passengers about and causing at least one to start crossing himself furiously. The plane was landed safely. But every U.S. official since then has taken the long road--literally--a three-hour trip by armored car from Greece to Macedonia...
...says Martin, who shuttles to St. Louis, Mo., on weekends to visit her husband, a surgical resident at a hospital there. "It's been a huge sacrifice to be apart," she says of her own case, "but I do believe it'll pay off." It already has--Martin will start work at A.G. Edwards, which has its headquarters in St. Louis, in the summer...
...many women, entrepreneurship is viewed as a way to have a profession where you have some control over your life, which may or may not be true." But working for yourself, unlike landing a top corporate job, doesn't require an M.B.A. Just witness the success of Silicon Valley start-ups led by computer-science grads without a Finance 101 course to their name...
That may all change soon, says Stanford's Gray, who hopes to put her M.B.A. to use for one of those start-ups after graduation. "The bootstrapping engineers are starting to realize that they need some business sense. The venture capitalists are looking for companies with M.B.A.s from top schools on board," Gray says. "I think M.B.A.s will be a big part of success in the new economy...
Still, once a firm finds a new use for a drug, it makes sense to get formal approval. That's the only way the company can legally start pushing the treatment in ads and in marketing pitches to physicians. Paxil may be the latest example of an SSRI expanding its franchise. But it's not the first, and it won't be the last...