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...industry. It is not going to be easy. Influenza vaccines are usually grown in a chicken-egg medium, and H5N1 virus kills chicken eggs. "We've never been faced with this situation," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Even if scientists succeed in genetically engineering a form of the virus that does not kill the eggs, says Fauci, it will still take another six months to develop, test and produce a viable vaccine. By that time, we may already know whether H5N1 has triggered one of those global epidemics that make...
...future: Grove's wife Eva, who fell in love with him when he was working as a busboy; Gordon Moore, Intel's first CEO and Grove's mentor; Arthur Rock, the venture capitalist who underwrote the company in 1968; and Craig Barrett, Intel's president, who will probably succeed Grove...
...presidential succession to be clarified; at the moment the only mechanism is essentially for the president to declare himself incapable of governing. Yeltsin's closest aides will circle the wagons around him, forward movement in politics and economic change will come to a halt, and the debilitating struggle to succeed Yeltsin will gather force...
DIED. GIOVANNI ALBERTO AGNELLI, 33, great-grandson of the founder of the Fiat empire and heir apparent at the corporation; of intestinal cancer; in Turin. Company legend had the dashing but unpretentious Agnelli working as a lathe operator to savor blue-collar life. He had been expected to succeed Cesare Romiti (who took over as chairman from Agnelli's famous uncle Gianni...
...talk, and a lot of talk about talking. Will any of it get anywhere? The Pentagon remains skeptical about how far the relatively new and moderate Khatami can go with his olive branch, given the entrenched opposition of Iran's hard-line ruling clergy. "To succeed," says MacLeod, "Khatami has to overcome hardliners within the Iranian system, and hawkish elements in the U.S. who oppose any rapprochement with Tehran." But he's already come a long way. Who'd have thought we'd ever hear "I take this opportunity to pay my respects to the great American people" from...