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...started with two words. On Nov. 19, India's newspapers carried front-page reports that Mukesh Ambani, the 47-year-old son of Dhirubhai and the chairman of Reliance Industries, the group's flagship petrochemicals and oil venture, had admitted to "ownership issues" at the company, which he and younger brother Anil, the vice chairman, had been running since their father's death in July 2002. For four days speculation ran amok in the Indian press that the brothers had started sparring over control of Reliance. On Nov. 22, Mukesh issued a statement saying that his words had been "torn...
...together worth $6 billion and whose families live together in an exclusive downtown-Bombay residential tower called Sea Wind?appear to be opposites in temperament. Mukesh, the cerebral strategist, dodges the limelight, concentrating on passions such as vegetarian food, watching Hindi movies and raising a family. Anil, two years younger, married a former film actress, keeps fit by jogging in public and is often seen with socialites and politicians. Earlier this year, he became a member of India's upper house of Parliament...
...usually 17. So teenage cancer patients are scattered through the health system, many being seen by oncologists more used to treating the cancers of middle and old age. These doctors, argue their pediatric counterparts, tend to back off on dosages too quickly, not appreciating how much more resilient younger people are. "Pediatric doctors are used to causing side effects and illness," says Marshall. "We accept that, because we know that there's a cure...
...with plans to use the model elsewhere in the state. One of the first patients through was Turkey Tolson's widow, Mary, who was well enough to join in women's business at Kintore this month, dancing at ceremony and collecting bush tomatoes. Next, Toyne wants to target the younger generation of Pintupi people with preventive measures, looking at better immunization, hygiene and diet. In the meantime, says Tim Kingender, "at least the dialysis center will give a window of time in which these problems can be addressed...
...entirely clear that Bush faces a confirmation fight over a replacement for Rehnquist if it amounts to, as a Senate Democratic aide put it, "trading an 80-year-old right-wing conservative for a younger right-wing conservative. You are not actually changing the balance of power." But if a moderate or liberal Justice, such as John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Sandra Day O'Connor, retires, the balance on the bench will be at stake--particularly when it comes to the fate of the court's 1973 abortion ruling in Roe v. Wade, which conservatives have said they...