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Then came the rise of dotcoms. Richard believed satellite transmission of the Internet to TV sets in China and India would be his future, and his Pacific Century Group got $50 million in backing from Intel for that dream in 1998. His next big deal was to develop a high-tech "Cyberport" on a prime piece of land donated by the Hong Kong government--without, strangely, the territory's usual process of taking bids from potential developers. He then created Pacific Century CyberWorks through a so-called back-door listing on the Hong Kong exchange, a procedure in which...
...extravagant launch of a single new scent. But increasingly the weapons of choice are limited-edition perfumes, male versions of female scents and bath-and-body line extensions. "You need to keep fresh, but you cannot constantly do megalaunches," says Karyn Khoury, senior vice president of fragrance development worldwide at Estee Lauder, which produces the Estee Lauder, Clinique and Bobbi Brown brands and holds global fragrance-licensing rights for designers Tommy Hilfiger and Donna Karan. An entirely new fragrance with a full marketing campaign, says Khoury, can take one to five years to develop, requiring significant investment...
More than vanity is at stake. If Venter's Celera wins what has become an increasingly bitter competition, government scientists fear, the human genome will be entangled in patent and licensing battles as rival drug firms seek protection for agents they are hoping to develop from the newly emerging genetic blueprint. With the announcement last week by Collins' team, though, these concerns are subsiding because Collins has been making the data public as he goes by putting it on the Internet every day. Says Lander: "Now there is no doubt that a genome will be freely available...
Panelists urged the audience to develop regular sleep patterns and discussed ways that students could deal with sleep deficiencies...
School district officials gave the developing school, which began as a kindergarten program, broad latitude to develop its own curriculum...