- Stem cell research: No ‘voodoo magic’. But maybe a miracle
Published in The Independent on Sunday, Oct 31, 2004.
The biotech industry may not have woken up to it yet, but a Saudi doctor’s accidental discovery could herald a new future for one of medical science’s most controversial breakthroughs. Maggie Lee reports.
Stem cell research has become a much talked of issue in the US election. Coming ...
- Analysis: Shut out of the male and pale boardroom
Published in The Independent on Sunday, Dec 12, 2004.
`When I see a shortlist that includes a woman and someone from an ethnic minority, I automatically veer towards them. It’s hard for anyone to climb the greasy pole and all other factors being equal, I tend to assume that women and minorities have overcome far more ...
- Brainpower pumps up the patents at Ark: Technology: Cardiovascular
Published in The Independent on Sunday, Feb 27, 2005.
John Martin, professor of cardiovascular science at University College London and founder of Ark Ther-apeutics, is a man known to the police. It goes back to his student days. “I was driving an ice-cream van during the day and studying to get into med school at night,” ...
- ‘Hysterical and passionate’ ” he doesn’t act casual but he knows how
Published in The Independent on Sunday, May 8th, 2005.
Johnnie Boden is a walking advertisement for his brand. Fresh- faced, slim and casually attired, the former public schoolboy looks just the sort of person who’d buy clothes from the Boden catalogue.
The entrepreneur is also very candid, admitting that he regards failure as a companion and work ...
- Harry Goodman: He got his wings burnt but he’s back for more: the third coming of a travel tycoon
Published in The Independent on Sunday, July 17, 2005.
Harry Goodman is just about to launch his third travel empire. The legendary leisure tycoon says he wants to set up ‘a specialist upmarket travel operation aimed at the grey market with worldwide cruising as its base’.
His plan is to ‘buy one or two companies to start ...
- THE INTERVIEW: Charlotte Semler – Too sexy for the money men, too
Published in The Independent on Sunday, Jul 24, 2005.
Sex sells, they say, but sometimes even the lure of money is not enough to conquer the reserve of investment houses.
Five years ago, Charlotte Semler and Nina Hampson, a former advertising executive and retail consultant respectively, noticed the burgeoning growth of the sex-accessory industry across Western capital ...
- Grenada’s ill wind
Published in www.opendemocracy.net, September 22nd, 2005.
Many Caribbean communities have faced the challenge of recovering from natural disaster. Maggie Lee visits Grenada, devastated by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, and is surprised by the creative recovery plans of the “island of perpetual potential”.
The small eastern Caribbean island of Grenada gained fleeting international notoriety (and some sympathy) when ...
- Football: Leo’s cheeky message to his old mate Sven
Published in The Independent on Sunday, Feb 26, 2006.
On a recent visit to the island of Trinidad, her home as a child, Maggie Lee met Leo Beenhakker, the Dutch coach of World Cup novices Trinidad and Tobago. An adopted hero, the Dutchman explains why he took on the challenge of scouting for talent from all ...
- Toujours poetry, toujours Provence
Published in The Independent on Sunday, Apr 9, 2006.
L’Occitane is not a brand name that slides easily into the vernacular of Britons and Americans. Marketing experts might argue that this “foreign-ness” and lack of instant appeal presents a huge challenge for a company generating more than a third of its revenues in the English-speaking world.
- ITV refugee Desmond resurfaces as adviser to Chinese television
Published in The Independent on Sunday, Apr 23, 2006.
Seven months on from his surprise news that he was leaving ITV, Mick Desmond, the former chief executive of ITV Broadcasting, is back helping a Chinese television group eyeing the British market.
Mr Desmond has accepted an international advisory role with the Hunan Broadcasting Company, the state-owned channel ...
- Sir Michael Smurfit, Chairman, Smurfit Kappa: ‘They used to look on me as a Paddy chancing his luck. It’s a mistake they only made once’
Published in The Independent on Sunday, Aug 27, 2006.
The Irish tycoon might have sold his packaging empire but he still has plenty on his plate, like the Ryder Cup.
Sir Michael Smurfit is on a roll. The Irish paper and packaging tycoon is about to realise one of his cherished ambitions: in September, Ireland will host ...
