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...sounds like science fiction: scientists take cells from a damaged eye, grow them in a dish, put them back in place and restore a patient's eyesight. But this is fact, not fiction, and vision was restored not just to one person but to dozens of blind or nearly blind patients in Taiwan...
...Clark, 55, is the first person ever to start three companies that each grew to be worth more than $1 billion--an achievement celebrated in Michael Lewis' best-selling book, The New New Thing. Clark saw in primitive computer graphics chips the potential for powerful new workstations built by Silicon Graphics. He looked at a simple interface for websites, and turned it into the Netscape Web browser. And he most recently has exploited the potential of the Web for dispensing medical information through a company called Healtheon. Each of these ideas has netted Clark a cool billion or so. Shouldn...
Take Mozambique, from which I just returned. It has a huge debt overhang that deters private investment as well as an even greater social-resource gap that prevents spending even as much as $10 per person on health care or providing schools for the next generation...
...demonstrators. But what they see as a step toward public safety has been criticized as an attempt to put democracy up for sale. The ordinance, which sets a fine of at least $75, allows police to arrest mask wearers who evidence "the specific intent to intimidate or threaten another person...
...there's a $50 appetizer b) before opening, there was a 2,000-person waiting list c) the jalapeno poppers are a little greasy d) customers can choose among a dozen pens with which to sign their check...