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...most intractable foes. It attacks 500,000 Americans annually and kills nearly half of them; around the world, about 1,500 people die from septic shock every day. Now help may be on the way. A new drug has stopped the progression of sepsis in clinical trials of dangerously ill victims, while another shows promise of halting the disease before it gets out of control...
...looked up from where I was sorting faxes, my tie uncomfortably riding up my neck, my feet aching within my boxy, ill-fitting brown shoes. Standing there was a tall man with braids sticking out from under his neon-orange helmet. He wore tight red shorts and his muscles, everywhere, were coated with sweat...
...bear no ill will toward journalists," Wolf answered. "They do a job that is part of the bread and butter of American life...
...next year. The company aims to carry as much as 30 tons of cargo or 240 passengers. In Berlin a company called CargoLifter launched a high-profile public stock offering on May 30 to fund the building of an 853-ft. colossus--49 ft. longer than the ill-fated Hindenburg. "I've been watching the airship industry for 15 years, and now it's getting very exciting," says Christian Schulthess, who for 20 years was a pilot with Balair-CTA, the charter subsidiary of Swissair. He is now president of Skyship Cruises in Switzerland, which ordered the first Zeppelin. "CargoLifter...
...second generation have a 40% chance of surviving, second to third generation have a 15% survival rate, and the number dwindles down to 1% from third to fourth generation, says John Messervey, principal consultant with the National Family Business Council, a consulting-and-research group in Lake Forest, Ill. Compounding all this is the fact that as many as 25% of senior family-business shareholders do not complete any estate planning other than writing a will, according to the Family Firm Institute www.ffi.org) a Boston-based association of family-business consultants, financial planners and lawyers...