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Nobody was paying attention to Tim Berners-Lee and his pet idea. He was a young British scientist at CERN, a high-energy physics lab in Geneva, and he had a radical new way for scientists to share data by linking documents to one another over the Internet. He had kicked around a few different names for it, including the "Infomesh" and the "Information Mine." But he wasn't getting much interest from his bosses. His proposal came back with the words "vague but exciting" written across the cover...
...banners, and everybody chanting "They say free trade; we say fair trade" and "Hey hey, ho ho, WTO has got to go." To almost everyone's surprise, we managed to shut down the World Trade Organization's Seattle conference and sent the WTO's leadership hightailing it back to Geneva without what they came for: an agreement for a new round of closed-door negotiations on global trade rules. An expert at a progressive think tank in Washington described it as "a kick in the groin of the ruling class...
...look at me, or I swear to God I'll cut you in half," yells Sergeant Patrick Dunleavy at Khaled, 23, who says he is fleeing Baghdad and who, from his uniform, appears to be a Republican Guard deserter. "Man, sometimes I wish we didn't have the Geneva Convention. You see what they did to our guys...
...family's journey from Rome in 1906 to GENEVA in the 1970s mirrors its shift from traditional drugmaking to biotech. Three generations of successions make it a most unusual biotech firm...
...long and odd history: it was founded in Rome in 1906, and its best-selling product was long a fertility drug derived from the urine of postmenopausal women, including Italian nuns. Bertarelli's grandfather took it over after the war, and his father Fabio moved it to Geneva in 1977 and began developing new products, including a human-growth hormone. When Genentech came out with a rival based on recombinant-DNA technology, Bertarelli Sr. began funding his own biotech research. That led to the development of a multiple-sclerosis (MS) drug called Rebif, which last year accounted...