done by Steven E. Swapp

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The results of the validation on the three batches of UH-AC 62 XX Liquid 7.5 mg / 5 ml Recipe 2 demonstrate that the routine production and testing of the product is assured. After the risk analysis, the production of the active substance / silicon dioxide mixture, of the hydroxyl ethyl cellulose mucous solution, of the final mixture, and of the filling are to be evaluated especially critically. The analysis results regarding homogeneity, viscosity, particle size, and resuspendability show that the chosen production parameters led to the desired results.

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We tested how strong the phosphorus or phosphate compounds from the stomach and intestinal tract are, based on the chosen dosage; what influence the elimination of phosphate in the stomach and intestinal tract has on the calcium-phosphate metabolism; to what extent iron ions can achieve absorption (hemosiderosis); and what influence increased adsorbed iron has on the iron metabolism in the body. By determining the iron levels in excrement, urine, and various tissues, the pharmacokinetic fate of the phosphate adsorber was recorded. The local mucous membrane tolerance (stomach/intestinal irritation) of the phosphate adsorber was tested histopathologically. By feeding standard rat feed at the close of the 28-day treatment phase, the reversibility of the findings was tested.

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ELDORADO, Misiones, July 5, 1957.

JOSE OMAR CANTEROS, Provincial Justice of the Peace and official in charge of the Civil Registry of Eldorado CERTIFIES: that Volume III of the Book of Birth Certificates of the year 1950 and in File 22 of the office of which I'm in charge, there is a certificate which says: "NUMBER FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-SIX.-In Eldorado, National Territory of Misiones, Republic of Argentina, the 21st of August, 1950, 'the Year of the Liberator General San Martín.' I, the official in charge of the Civil Registry, proceed to inscribe the birth of: RAUL, male, occurred at 7:30 on the 16th day of July 1952 in Eldorado, son of JORGE JANSSEN, twenty-four years of age, of German nationality, son of Abraham Janssen and of Marie Metzger; and of ELENA TELLO, married, twenty-two years of age, of German nationality, residing in Eldorado, daughter of Juan Tello and of María Haas. This inscription is effected according to the declaration presented by the father before the witnesses: Erich Kemper, married, thirty-five years of age, residing in Eldorado; Juan König, unmarried, twenty-five years of age, residing in Eldorado. The certificate having been read, the declarant and the previously named witnesses, Erich Kemper and Johann König, signed it with me. There is a seal."

TIME International
June 3, 1996
Volume 147, No. 23

MEXICAN PRODIGY

The country's richest man ventures into online services
as he moves to globalize his empire

His executive offices in Mexico City are spartan. He dresses unpretentiously in baggy suits, sometimes drives his own car, lives in the same house where he raised his six children and has been seen wearing a cheap plastic watch. But don't be fooled by Carlos Slim Helú's austere life-style; appearances notwithstanding, Slim is the richest man in Mexico, and he is a new player in the rapidly evolving digital dimension.

Two weeks ago, Slim, 56, and his Grupo Carso conglomerate joined with International Wireless of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to buy Prodigy, the floundering online computer service owned by IBM and Sears. Grupo Carso owns 20% of International Wireless, which paid an estimated $250 million for Prodigy. "This is an outrageously great opportunity," exults IW chairman Gregory Carr. "We're going to take Prodigy to the world."

If Slim's record as a shrewd bargain hunter is any guide, Prodigy, which ranks fourth among American online services, may indeed become a hot property after years of losing money. Over the past decade, this Mexican-born son of Lebanese immigrants has earned a reputation as a turnaround magician -- snapping up undervalued, badly managed companies, then putting in new executive teams to bring them back to profit. Slim's vast holdings, valued at around $3.4 billion, encompass everything from tobacco farms to copper mines to printing plants. Slim owns Mexico's beloved Sanborn Hermanos chain of coffee shops and drugstores, the Inbursa financial group, plus a big interest in the Mexican phone company, Telmex, of which he is chairman.

When Mexico's economy was flying high in the early '90s, Grupo Carso was capitalized at more than $10 billion. Since the disastrous December 1994 devaluation of the peso, that value has dropped sharply. But because of Grupo Carso's relatively small debt and heavy reliance on exports, amounting to as much as 40% of its business, the company has suffered little. Profits for 1995 were $295 million. "Carso is no upstart," says Santiago Pique, an analyst at Bear and Stearns in New York City. "The company is a Mexican success story."

Given Prodigy's potential, Slim and his partners bought the service for peanuts. Jamie Kiggen, an Internet analyst for Bear and Stearns, believes that $150 million of the $250 million price was in debt assumption, which means International Wireless put up only $100 million in cash for a company in which IBM and Sears had invested $1 billion.

Can the new management make Prodigy prosper? No one who knows Carlos Slim's ability to take a company from distress to success would bet against it.

UN PRODIGIO MEXICANO

El hombre más rico de México busca globalizar su imperio a través de servicios en línea.

Puede ser que el vestuario y el estilo de vida de Carlos Slim Helú no revelan el hecho de que él es el mexicano más rico. De todos modos, es un nuevo participante en el mundo de servicios en línea. Su Grupo Carso, conjunto con International Wireless de Massachusetts, ha comprado el proveedor Prodigy de servicios de Internet de sus dueños previos, IBM y Sears, por el precio de remate de solo 250 millones de dólares.

International Wireless solo pagó alrededor de 100 millones de dólares en efectivo (y aparentemente lo demás en deudas asumidas) para una empresa en la cual sus dueños actuales habían invertido más de 1.000 millones de dólares. Parece que hay un gran potencial para el éxito.

Aunque Prodigy no ha tenido tanto éxito como los demás grandes proveedores norteamericanos de servicios en línea, Slim tiene la reputación de un negociante listo que sabe comprar empresas mal administradas o menospreciadas y hacer reformas que las regresan a la rentabilidad. Puede ser que Prodigy ya llegue a ser una empresa deseable, como son sus otras propiedades, por ejemplo: Sanborn's, Inbursa, y hasta Telmex, de la cual él sirve como jefe de consejo

EIN MEXIKANISCHES WUNDERKIND

Der reichste Mann Mexikos sucht die Globalisierung seines Reiches durch Online-Services.

Es kann sein, daß die Kleidung und der Lebensstil von Carlos Slim Helú es nicht offenbar machen, daß er der reichste Mexikaner ist. Aber er ist ein neuer Spieler in der Welt von Online-Services. Sein Grupo Carso, zusammen mit International Wireless (Massachusetts) hat Prodigy, den Internet-Dienstanbieter, von seinen vorherigen Besitzern, IBM und Sears, fur den Ausverkaufspreis von nur 250 Millionen Dollar abgekauft.

International Wireless hat nur etwa 100 Millionen Dollar in Bargeld ausgeben müssen (und den Rest scheinbar mit der Übernahme von Schulden bezahlt). Die vorherigen Besitzer hatten mehr als 1 Milliarde Dollar in die Firma investiert; es scheint also, daß Erfolg eine große Möglichkeit ist.

Obwohl Prodigy bis jetzt weniger Erfolg gehabt hat als die anderen großen Online-Dienstanbieter der USA, hat Slim den Ruf erworben, ein kluger Geschäftsmann zu sein, der sich darauf versteht, schlechtverwaltete oder niedrig bewertete Firmen aufzukaufen und sie so umzugestalten, daß sie wieder Gewinne abwerfen. Es kann sein, daß Prodigy nun eine erwünschte Firma wird, so wie die anderen Besitze vom Herrn Slim, z.B.: Sanborn's, Inbursa, und sogar Telmex, für die er als Präsident dient

Entre los «bienes» capturados estaba un «indio» joven con el nombre de Matutaray que vino de la Isla de Oneehow (sic) en el archipiélago de las Sandwich. Había servido a bordo del barco como sirviente personal para el capitán James Colnett. Aparentemente, desde que lo sacaron de su isla en 1778, había estado en un par de barcos británicos, y había viajado tan lejos como hasta Cantón en China con ellos. Ahora viajaba hacia Nutka con su nuevo jefe, José Esteban Martínez, quien hizo al virrey un reporte de todo el asunto, prometiendo a llevar al hawaiano joven a la Ciudad de México donde se podría recopilar un diccionario de su idioma. Por supuesto mencionó que el joven mostraba tendencias hacia la posibilidad de aceptar el catolicismo.

A Matutaray se lo describía como un individuo guapo, bastante alto para su raza (casi 195 cm, mientras la mayoría de polinésicos medían apenas 175 cm) y poseedor de piel de color olivo, rasgos faciales europeos, y cabello ondulado negro. (Esto, según lo describieron sus admiradores, claro.) Debía de haber sido bastante listo, también, para siempre decirles a los españoles lo que ellos querían oír.

Among the seized "goods" was a young "Indian" named Matutaray from the Island of Oneehow (sic) in the Sandwich Islands. He had served as Captain James Colnett's personal servant on board the ship. Apparently, he had been on a couple of British ships since he was picked up in 1778, and he had traveled as far as Canton in China with the British. Now he was to travel to Nutka with his new jefe, José Esteban Martínez, who made a report of the whole affair to the viceroy, promising to bring the young man to Mexico City, where a dictionary of his language could be put together. Of course he mentioned that the young man showed tendencies towards embracing Catholicism.

Matutaray was described as a handsome individual, standing very tall for his race (almost 6'5", whereas most Polynesians were only about 5'7") and possessing olive-toned skin, European-type facial features, and black wavy hair. (This according to the description of his admirers, obviously.) He must have also been smart enough to always tell the Spaniards what they wanted to hear.

Unter den beschlagnahmten "Gütern" war ein junger "Indianer" namens Matutaray, der von einer der Sandwich-Inseln, der Insel Oneehow (sic) stammte. Er hatte an Bord des Schiffes dem Kapitan James Colnett persönlich gedient. Scheinbar war er auf etlichen britischen Schiffen gewesen, seitdem sie ihn von seiner Insel weggenommen hatten, und er war mit ihnen sogar schon bis nach Kanton in China gereist. Jetzt war er mit seinem neuen Befehlshaber, José Esteban Martínez, unterwegs nach Nutka. Dieser hatte der spanischen Regierung das Ganze berichtet und versprochen, den jungen Mann nach Mexiko-City mitzubringen, wo man ein Wörterbuch seiner Sprache zusammenstellen könnte. Natürlich hat er auch erwähnt, daß der junge Mann Tendenzen für die Annahme der katholischen Religion zeigte.

Mann hatte Matutaray als ansehnlich beschrieben, sehr groß für seine Rasse (fast 195 cm, wo doch die meisten Polynesier kaum 175 cm erreichten) und mit Oliv-Färbung in der Haut, europäischen Gesichtszügen, und welligen, schwarzen Haaren. (Diese Beschreibung gemäß der Vorstellungen seiner Verehrer, klar.) Er muß auch klug genug gewesen sein, um den Spaniern immer das zu erzählen, was sie gerade hören wollten.

Der darauf folgende Tag brachte es ans Licht. Das zweite Schiff war wieder nicht fertig geworden!! Warten hatte keinen Sinn, also rüsteten wir unser Schiff auf, um den Hafen heute zu verlassen, ohne auf die anderen zu warten. Aber auf Grund unserer gemeinsam geplanten Fahrt hatte ich keine Seekarten von England besorgt, nur Fotokopien für den Notfall. Der Hafenmeister sagte, wenn ich sie telefonisch bestelle, seien sie bis Mittag da! OK, wir warten. Bedarf es noch einer weiteren Erklärung?

Genau an diesem Tag war aber ein neuer Fahrer am Steuer des Lieferwagens, der den Hafen nicht fand. So war dieser Tag auch verloren, denn wir sind auf die Flut angewiesen, um ins offene Meer zu kommen. Unverrückbar stand nun fest: Morgen geht es los!!

So war es dann auch. Genau zur festgesetzten Zeit verabschiedeten wir uns von allen, die gerade im Hafen waren, und liefen wir aus.

El siguiente día nos dimos cuenta: ¡el otro barco otra vez no estaba listo! No tenía caso esperar más, así que equipamos nuestro barco para salir hoy mismo a solas del puerto. Solo que a causa de los planes que teníamos de viajar juntos con los demás, no había traído yo mapas del mar alrededor de Inglaterra, solamente fotocopias para cualquier percance inesperado. El capitán de puerto dijo que si los pediría por teléfono, estarían ya para el mediodía. Bueno, esperamos. ¿Tengo que explicarlo más?

Precisamente en aquel día estaba manejando la camioneta de entregas un nuevo conductor, quien no encontró el puerto. Este día se echó también a perder, porque necesitamos utilizar la corriente para llegar al mar abierto. Ya estaba firmemente decidido: ¡Mañana nos vamos!

Y así fue también. Exactamente a la hora prescrita, nos pusimos en marcha, habiéndonos despedido de todos quienes en aquel momento se encontraban en el puerto.

The next day we found out: the second boat was again not ready!! There was no purpose in waiting, so we outfitted our boat in the harbor in order to set sail today without the others. Only because of our plans to sail together, I didn't have any sea charts of England, just photocopies for any emergency situation that might arise. The harbormaster said that if I ordered them by telephone, they would be there by noon. OK. We'll wait. Do I need to explain further?

It so happened that on this particular day, there was a new man driving the delivery van, and he couldn't find the harbor. This day was also lost to us, because we have to use the tide to reach the open sea. Now we were firmly decided that we would take off tomorrow!!

And tomorrow it was. Exactly at the planned time, we said good-bye to all that were in the harbor and set sail.