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Lemonade stands? That's child's play for these savvy titans-to-be. At the tender age of 17, Bill Gates had laid the foundation of what would become the most storied technology firm ever.

New ways to understand complex processes, like the workings of tumor cells or the immune system, will lead to areas for drug development.

Do you have what it takes to get through the recession? Here are the traits that get home based business owners through the hard times.

Check out the latest results of a survey of 805 small-business owners by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group. In the last 420 months that the NFIB has taken that monthly pulse of small-business owners--on everything from profits and inventories to hiring and capital spending--last December marked the second-worst in terms of overall optimism. (The most pessimistic month was recorded during another recession--back in 1980.)

William Miller has clocked 200,000 airline miles so far this year. Miller is on the management squads of three start-ups, all focused on breakthroughs in nanotechnology, and teaches at Stanford University. Next spring, he will fly to Seoul, South Korea, when Konkuk University will cut the ribbon on the William F. Miller School of Management and Technology.

With the banking industry roiled beyond recognition, many Wall Streeters will be looking for a fresh start in the coming months. The financial services industry slashed 130,000 jobs in 2007 and another 111,000 already in 2008, according to Challenger Gray & Christmas, a placement and consulting firm in Chicago.