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Brett Neveu's imagined world in 'Megacosm' is well worth a closer look
Chicago Tribune
... entertainment complex of a dystopian world. In these places where art goes to die, or to be made into a product, the most beautiful ideas can find themselves stolen, hidden, morphed, disappeared or smashed into tragic little consumable pieces. ...
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Don't give up on world trade talks
Washington Times
By Sherman Katz and Gary Hufbauer In December, 154 countries of theWorld Trade Organization agreed they needed “new ideas” to break the stalemate after 10 years of negotiations to lower trade barriers - the ill-starred Doha Development Round. ...
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Washington Times
Science's "most beautiful theories"
Reuters
By Sharon Begley | NEW YORK (Reuters) - From Darwinian evolution to the idea that personality is largely shaped by chance, the favorite theories of the world's most eminent thinkers are as eclectic as science itself. Every January, John Brockman, ...
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This Man Started The World's Largest Independent Hotel Group Out Of His Son's ...
Business Insider
So that was my goal, and what happened was we started the company with twelve friends and family and we had these ideas. Hey, we're going to have all the power of a major chain, but you can keep your name as the Seashore Inn, or the Stardust Hotel in ...
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Business Insider
The world delivers each of the…
San Francisco Luxury News
Ideas are popular as well. Such as clay items as one example roof tiles and accent pieces with pretty designs, regularly Moorish in origin. The surplus local craft that is blooming all over again is wide lace making. For anyone who is small by the due ...
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TOMS Shoes founder aims to make a difference in the world
The Rock River Times
... ideas come from the freshest minds, and for that reason, college involvement is of utmost importance to them. They emphasize that college graduation is not a prerequisite for making a mark on the world that is desperately in need of change. ...
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Tedxou Invites Ou Fred Jones Jr. Director To Speak
Oklahoma Daily
CEOs, entrepreneurs, historians and more will gather to spread ideas for positive change in the world, according to the TEDxOU website. TEDXOU speaker Ghislain D'Humieres, director of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, was inspired by his artist ...
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Can Long Island Be a World Class Innovation Powerhouse?
MarketWatch (press release)
In a recent effort to address these ideas about reimagining our communities, the Long Island Index launched a new Build a Better Burb website, www.buildabetterburb.org which demonstrates how downtowns around the country have been redesigned to create ...
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Bright idea
mydigitalfc.com
Innovation is one word that has been a life-changer for people all over the world. This is particularly true of innovations that bring technological access to the masses, uplifting the quality of life for the people. India has especially been one of ...
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In Our Changing World, Balance Is the Key
The Missourian
I also post tweets about Book Buzz and Novel Ideas Picks. For those in the dark about how Twitter works, my friend and colleague Dawn offered a simple explanation. She said tweets, which can only be 140 characters or less, are like headlines — if the ...
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7 Apocalyptic Short Ideas
Seeking Alpha
While banks shed some of their Greek holdings at the end of 4Q 2011, hedge funds around the world scooped them up, knowing full well they could hold Greece hostage. To avoid a mass-triggering of CDSs around the world, Greece needs to obtain voluntary ...
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US could yet become a world leader
Fox News
It's worth noting that when the NASL finally caught on, it was heavily stocked with European players and continental ideas. American sports fans were willing to watch a top-level product, even if they weren't real sure how to pronounce all the players' ...
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Council seeks fresh ideas for Town Hall and Corn Exchange
BBC News
By Richard Haugh BBC News For one night in May 1994, the Ipswich Corn Exchange was the best place in the world. Blur had just released Parklife and performed most of it, along with songs from the other two albums, in front of an audience that appeared ...
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BBC News
World Trade Center redevelopment appears ready to move forward
NOLA.com
He said he expects to issue a request for proposals by midyear, asking developers for their ideas on what should be done with the site. A hotel or condominiums have been the most frequently heard suggestions, but the city is prepared to entertain all ...
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NOLA.com
A World of Keflings DLC to be chosen by fans
Shacknews
by Andrew Yoon, Jan 17, 2012 6:45am PST Sometimes, developers run out of time to implement some of their ideas into a video game release. Unfortunately, sometimes developers run out of time to implement someideas even for DLC. A World of Keflings ...
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Shacknews
Ideas Trump Gadgets
Forbes
It's an idea. What's more, it's an idea that coffee-shop owners and managers all over the world can reuse over and over again. Romer, who has made an enormous contribution to economic growth theory, takes up an interesting question: Which is a bigger ...
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SF State poet imagines a world 'without'
SF State Campus Headlines
Each of the 64 poems in Chernoff's book imagines a world in which a specific idea or term has been removed. "In other words, to posit an alternate universe, a universe where that term is not contained or is transformed," said Chernoff, a critically ...
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SF State Campus Headlines
Pinterest: Latest social media craze for sharing all of your favorite things
Middletown Journal
Start a board and collect related photos, recipes or project ideas. Your friends, across the country or around the world, can chime in about your bridal bouquet ideas or landscaping concepts for your backyard. Or you can browse other people's pinboards ...
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'Melting pot of the world'
Maui News
Mayor Alan Arakawa, who spoke at the ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Stone of Hope Monument, said Maui is a place that exemplifies King's ideas. "We are the melting pot of the world. We are, as a county, an example of what Dr. Martin Luther King ...
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TED Offers Customizable DVD On Demand Product
Sacramento Bee
DVDs, available for $9.99, can be shipped to and watched in any region of the world. "By putting our TEDTalks online for free, we've helped spread ideas to over half a billion viewers," said June Cohen, Executive Producer of TED Media. ...
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Burning America's future
Los Angeles Times
By Bill McKibben At the turn of the last century, Time magazine published a list of what it considered to be the 100 worst ideas of the 20th century. It included Prohibition, leisure suits, the Titanic, cold fusion. You get the idea. I know it's early, ...
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Pinterest class offers a world of crafty possibilities
SCNow
The monthly classes utilize the online pinboard, www.pinterest.com, to gather ideas for projects. Next month group members will make three pedestal canisters. To join the class, call 332-6234. Size is limited. HARTSVILLE, SC _ Drawing on the popularity ...
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Guantanamo and the Death Penalty: Two Terrible Ideas Come Together
American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)
The military commission hearing in the case of Abd al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri (pronounced al-NAH-shiri) beginning today will once again put on the world stage two of the worst US ideas: Guantánamo and the death penalty. ...
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American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)
Artful exploration of rebellions that shook the world
Irish Times
The narratives are presented in galleries designed to evoke gathering places, where people exchanged news and argued the big ideas of the day. The settings allow the drama of the events to unfold, pulling the visitor into the action and debate. ...
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Irish Times
African growth? It's complicated
CNN
A recent research finds Uganda has the biggest economic potential Editor's note: Dayo Olopade is a journalist and author of the forthcoming book: "The Bright Continent: How African Ideas are Changing the World." She has written extensively on global ...
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Belly button of the world
The Telegram
He knowingly stole ideas from other companies' products. Yet if another company dared borrow from his products, he would go to war. Lifetime friends were never again spoken to after a disagreement. After reading the biography, “Steve Jobs” by Walter ...
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The Telegram
Opening the Language Learning Classroom to the World
Big Think (blog)
The goal is to explain your ideas, wishes, goals, interests as good as in your native language. It's not about asking “Where is the hotel?” “How much does this cost?” it's about the same social interaction you would want to have on a cocktail party in ...
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What Are Christians Talking About When We Talk About the End of the World?
Huffington Post
Biblical ideas about "the end" seem to be like this, too. As in the first way to Buddhist enlightenment, there are in the Bible depictions of a cataclysmic and unexpected end of the world--sudden plagues and natural disasters, a final battle between ...
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World IPv6 Launch Solidifies Global Support for New Internet Protocol
MarketWatch (press release)
Yahoo! is proud to be a part of the World IPv6 Launch - an event that marks the next chapter of our Internet. IPv6 enables the Internet to grow, while remaining open and accessible to new applications and new ideas." -- Jason Fesler, Distinguished ...
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Future in Review Names One to the World a FiRe X FiReStarter
MarketWatch (press release)
The Economist calls FiRe "the best technology conference in the world." FiRe exposesworld experts and participants to new ideas, producing an accurate portrait of the future, and focuses on creating technology solutions to current local and global ...
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Brick concept phone: Cool idea, horrible name
CNET
Given that in some parts of the world, including the US, having a bricked phone means having a non-working phone, some customers might not be too keen on picking one up. Also, when someone asks you what kind of phone you have, I'm pretty sure answering...
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New Calendar Would Add Extra Week to December
National Geographic
"They had the ability to get the rest of the world to go along with them. Nobody has that power now." But Hanke hopes his proposed calendar will go viral. "The key thing here is spontaneity," he said. Ideas can randomly catch on "when you are doing ...
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National Geographic
Ron Paul: maverick who could decide the future of the Republican party
The Guardian
"Politicians don't amount to much," he once said, "but ideas do." He has shown himself consistently unwilling to bend his beliefs in favour of political expediency, even where that leaves him alone and in the wilderness, earning himself the moniker "Dr ...
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The Guardian
Obama council repeats job-creating ideas
CNN (blog)
The only thing the REPUBLICANS care about is defeating the President at all cost, they are a bunch of old fogies that want to go back 70 or more years, when the world has changed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Obama has given us sky rocket oil prices ...
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You can't trust Israel (so I'd hope)
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
This is one of these great ideas that look great in the Washington think-tankworld, and can never work in the real world. For one, because Iran can't be trusted. And also: Because international monitors can't be trusted - they might have the best of ...
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The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
14 Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy
blogs.hbr.org (blog)
In a matter of weeks, we received some 104 entries from around the world that confirmed our belief that there are so many experiments and initiatives going on right now — in every realm of endeavor and every part of the world — that advance the cause ...
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Europeans shrug off Mitt Romney's criticism
Washington Post
Josef Joffe, editor of the German weekly Die Zeit, noted that Romney's rhetoric seemed particularly off-key in a country where social benefits remain generous even as Chancellor Angela Merkel pushes fiscally conservative ideas such as austerity and ...
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Developing cities set pace in recovery
Omaha World-Herald
The authors of a report by Brookings' Metropolitan Policy Program, being made public Wednesday, say cities hold the key to the world's economic health, serving as crucibles for new ideas, business know-how and financial muscle that can create jobs and ...
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Innovating From the Bottom Up
Portfolio.com
What they need is a willingness to listen to good ideas from their employees. Here are seven ways to innovate from the bottom up. Guest Commentary: With so many new technologies and dazzling applications, tech-based innovation seems like an 80-armed ...
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Portfolio.com
Eye on entertainment
Washington Post
Cohen's new album, "Old Ideas," will be released in France on Jan. 30. Bond Girls Eunice Gayson, left, Britt Ekland, center, and Jenny Hanley pose for photographers at the opening of the "Bond in Motion: 50 Vehicles 50 Years" exhibit at the National ...
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IDEAS FOR LEADERS: What I Learned From Starting Fast Company ...
By Jerryt
The world does not need your idea. It's important to remember that–people are getting along just fine without your idea. So learn to see the world through their eyes–explain how your idea solves their problem! 4. Who you are and what you've ...
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Mind Relaxing Ideas | world entertainment
By entertainment
According to TMZ, "Gary sent his ex-GF a text message on December 24th -- wishing her a "Merry Christmas" -- and then called her... The actor would be remanded into custody if he tried to contact her again." Nicole Vail Cannizzaro obtained ...
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Premium Tank Ideas... - World of Tanks official forum
14 hours ago ... EBR-90 French Light Recon Vehicle Light recon vehicle designed prior to WW2 but put in production after WW2. In 1954 it was fitted with a 75mm lo...
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Ideas for places in the virtual world website I'm creating ...
Hey everyone! I'm a little stumped. I'm making a website where it's a virtual ... A hair salon would be cool, but don't just make shops! You should include hangouts, ...
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