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...sick with cancer, Ernesto had to grow up fast. In 1996 he took over Serono, a fertility-drug company Fabio had built up after inheriting it from his father. If anybody inside or outside the Geneva-based company had doubts about the succession, those doubts quickly disappeared. Under the younger Bertarelli's leadership, Serono has shifted its focus from pharmaceuticals to biotechnology and almost doubled its revenues to $1.5 billion in 2002, making it the world's third largest biotech company after Amgen and Genentech. "My father created a platform, and I launched myself from it," says Bertarelli...
...never considered leaving,” she said. “Some of the younger people just out of high school have been called home by their parents, but I haven’t heard of anyone my age leaving...
...some younger students from the U.S., the threat of war has brought changes in their daily life...
...Noori family, like 30 per cent of those in Chamchamal, are from Kirkuk. They were driven out by Saddam's forces during an anti-Kurd pogrom, called the Anfal, in 1998 and 1999. The younger brothers would like nothing more than to push through the Iraqi lines encircling the city once they collapse and join what is expected to be a civilian uprising. "We want to fight with our lives," says...
...show in 11 cities in 11 days, the heart of a brutal if-this-is-Monday-it-must-be-Balikpapan tour of the Kalimantan region. With reddened eyes and leftover makeup?not to mention the diamonds embedded in her teeth?she looks older than her 24 years but acts younger, clutching a pillow to her chest and resting her head on a TIME reporter's shoulder. In 10 hours she'll be doing her heavy-duty Fly Girl routine on a Pelaihari stage; 12 hours after that, she'll be in Jakarta running through a version of her moves...