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IDEAS, Jan 21, 2012

Exclusive Sunday Preview | Ideas The lonely superpower
The Boston Globe
“I'm trying to debunk the idea that a world with one great power is better,” he said in an interview. “If you don't have one problem, you have another.” Sure, Monteiro says, the risk of apocalyptic war has decreased, since there's no military equal to ...
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Words & Ideas
Los Angeles Times
How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World: Author Norman Lebrecht in conversation with Deborah Borda, president and CEO, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Los Angeles Central Library 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles. 7 pm (213) 228-7000. ...
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Republican ideas have been proven disasters
The News Journal
When Bill and Melinda Gates attempted to rid the world of disease, they discovered that the reason that people in Africa had so many children was not because they did not know about reproduction; it was because they anticipated that their children ...
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World's Largest Game Controller
Discovery News
Some of the best ideas are born in bars, at least that's how it seemed to work out for Ben Allen and his friends. Allen, a British engineering student, created the world's largest NES controller and showcased it at London's Liverpool Street station to ...
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Where ideas collide
Edmonton Journal
"The most innovative companies of the world build campuses, not office towers," he said, pointing to companies like Apple, Google and Nike. Startup's success will lie in failure - the failure of many, many ideas and startups needed to produce ...
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Ensuring a Robust Marketplace of Ideas: Rethinking Antitrust Policy in the ...
Huffington Post (blog)
The digital world makes the bundling (whether explicit or implicit) of intellectual property far easier than the physical world. Companies can make their profit in one place and break even or lose money on other products to support this activity. ...
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Moyers & Co.: World of Ideas
truthout
Bill's guests – Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, argue that America's vast inequality is no accident, but in fact has been politically ...
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Ideas confirmed from ends of the Earth
Owen Sound Sun Times
“We live in one of the coolest places in the world. We have the Bruce Peninsula. We have so much life and so much all around us that we really do need to learn about what is in our backyard before we can help the world,” she said. ...
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Small Business Profile: Broken Arrow woman getting bacon-drippings product on ...
Tulsa World
Laub said she hopes to release more products in 2012, including a restaurant version of her bacon drippings as well as other ideas not yet announced. Where did you concoct the idea for the bacon drippings as a commercial product? ...
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Love with a personal touch: Valentine's gift ideas that show you care
Pensacola News Journal
Remember, this is the day you get to pull out all the stops to show how much you care for the most important woman in your world. To make it as romantic as possible, take plenty of time to do research and get ideas before heading out to make concrete ...
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Auckland could become world's mural capital
New Zealand Herald
And as exhibition-goers, we can make our own mark by adding stories and ideas to a digital map until the exhibition closes in August. Elsewhere in the city, someone with a particular vision for Auckland is the graffiti artist Askew, ...
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IMEX invites students around the world to enter essay competition
Breaking Travel News
The competition is open to full and part-time students over the age of 18 studying at an academic institution anywhere in the world. It invites them to submit either their ideas and visions for how the meetings industry will evolve over the next 10 ...
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In Age of Discontent, Is Davos Still Relevant?
CNBC.com
It's an independent forum, it brings together a whole host of people and their ideas, and increases awareness of the challenges and opportunities the world has to offer,” BG Srinivas, head of Europe at Infosys, who is going to his sixth WEF conference ...
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CNBC.com
Bring the world closer to Japan
The Japan Times
It is said that no new ideas originate from a homogeneous social group. Hence, the introduction of the above-mentioned measures is needed for Japan to overcome its present predicament. The ratio of foreign enterprises' direct investment in Japan's ...
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Understanding where we've been
Montreal Gazette
Marx, the founding father of social science, died in 1883, little realizing the impact his ideas would have on world history, Hobsbawm writes. Within 25 years, political parties espousing Marxism were potent forces in most European countries. ...
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Conceptualizing A Great Lakes Commons
Ashland Current
What the Great Lakes need at present are a few new ideas. Ideas? Why? Because ideas have power, ideas have the power to change the world— as for example a heliocentric solar system, germ theory, evolution, the scientific method, democracy. ...
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Hope or Fear: The Opposing Ideas of H5N1 Bird Flu Researchers
The Atlantic
The six countries of the world where highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is endemic (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Indonesia, and Vietnam) ... are not often able to detect and respond to influenza A/H5N1 infections in birds. ...
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Five Ideas for Building Better, More Efficient Homes
Huffington Post (blog)
It has been used around the world, with Israel and Cyprus being the per capita leaders in the use of solar water heating systems -- over 30 to 40 percent of homes using them. Using trees, shrubs and landscape features can help homeowners reduce their ...
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Top rugby teams eye world club championship
SI.com
"We are talking all the time (to southern hemisphere officials) about improving the competition structures and growing interest in the game around the world,'' McCafferty said. "And this is one of the ideas. We have probably talked to them about it for ...
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Only moderation can save the world
New Straits Times
What matters was the convergence of ideas that has made the conference a memorable one. In aworld divided by conflicting agendas and interests, and in an era of greed and financial turmoil, it is comforting to know that there are still voices of ...
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The world according to Yayoi Kusama
Financial Times
“I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.” I look at some of the squiggles on the canvas and wonder if they are worms. “I don't know,” she says doubtfully. “What's written on the back?” An assistant disappears behind the painting....
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Financial Times
World-famous Corporate Magician Rick Smith Jr. to Appear on ABC's Hit Show ...
PR Web (press release)
Magician and Guinness World Records holder Rick Smith Jr. will appear January 27th on ABC's hit series "Shark Tank" - where entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas for investment dollars. Rick will present his plan to the "Sharks,” which include Mark ...
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PR Web (press release)
Neurotoxins In Stranded Squid (With Bonus Rant About Academic Publishing)
Science 2.0
Cephalopods have been rocking my world since I was in grade school. I pursued them through a BA in marine biology at the University of California... It seems that certain great ideas have Times. Like, whoever's alive at that time, ...
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The Occupy Movement - A Revolution in our Sense of Self
Open Democracy
It exists in 900 cities across the world. The Free University campaign headed by the Bank of Ideas in Occupy London is working to educate, inform and engage debate on issues of economics, education, work, technology, science, food production, ...
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Open Democracy
UnitedGREEN Offers Three $1000 Prizes for Student Ideas
The Open Press (press release)
The students who win the award in each of the categories will retain all rights to their work, but we do want them to share their ideas with the world." The student's work must be original, actionable, and pertain to helping make the region sustainable ...
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Countdown to SolidWorks World 2012: “Father of the iPod” to Keynote
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
To this end, crowdsourcing will be a hot topic on Day 2 of SolidWorks World. Social development is becoming increasingly important to product ideation and creation, and SolidWorks customers will showcase how it's easier than ever to bring ideas to ...
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Winter Sports World Mourns Burke
WMUR Manchester
MANCHESTER, NH -- The skiing world has lost a star who had dreams of winning Olympic gold. Freestyle skier Sarah Burke, 29, died after a practice run crash on the same half-pipe that dashed the Olympic dreams of local snowboarder Kevin Pearce. ...
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... and grand ideas for what to do with it
Borders Today
... in Traditional Scottish Cookery, and describes Mrs Beeton's method in her Food of the WesternWorld: “make from 1 cup orange marmalade and ¼ pint (½ cup) white wine stirred together in a saucepan over a gentle heat until very hot, then strained. ...
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Strange Sounds and Weird Noises Around the World Inspire Chuck Norris Snoring ...
Gather Celebs News Channel
People have reported hearing strange sounds around the world. While nobody knows what these weird noises are, they have come up with plenty of ideas and jokes about it. Some people believe they are really just Chuck Norris snoring. ...
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Conference peers 20 years into Broadway's future
Seattle Post Intelligencer
"This is an idea factory in the middle of the most vital city in the whole world," says McCarthy, who warns that Broadway will lose its relevance if it sticks with well-mannered works from predictable source material.
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World of Warplanes Unveils German Aircraft
Gamasutra
World of Waplanes will expand its fleet of German warbirds to more than 90 models. "German engineers were never afraid of innovative design in their aircraft," said World of Warplanes producer Anton Sitnikov. "They embodied their ideas into impressive ...
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The success of failure: Pulitzer winner's surprising road to the top
CNN
You can try every bell and whistle and good idea in the world, but if the book doesn't have a voice, you don't have a book. "But for some reason I kept hammering away at it, which certainly in retrospect could have been a terrible waste of time if I ...
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Evening markets: bears reclaim cocoa and soybeans
Agrimoney.com
The general movement in agricultural commodities markets remained upward, helped by firmer ideasfor demand, with ideas over the world economy improving, besides some specific factors. Sugar, for instance, had both with Sucden Financial's Nick Penney ...
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Is the SD Association Trying to Bully Eye-Fi Out of Intellectual Property?
PCWorld (blog)
In the world of cameras, another patent battle is taking shape. This one may serve as a better reminder as to why patent laws exist in the first place, depending on some crucial information that has yet to come to light. Eye-Fi, a company that has been ...
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DoJ shutdown of Megaupload proves SOPA opponents were right, starts war with ...
ITworld.com
... extra-judicial , government-sanctioned programs to punish those who don't conform to business models that have not adapted to new technologies, new customers or even old ideas of civil rights, justice and the assumption of guilt. ...
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GM Reclaims World's Top Automaker Title as Stock Performance Lags
Yahoo! Finance (blog)
They STILL make poor quality cars stealing ideas from everyone else and claiming them as their own. They make these crappy things and toss in some luxury items to try to draw your attention away from the poor quality and have you THINKING you are ...
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Ten Questions with Author Molly Nero of the Children's Book Series, Smarty Pig
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
His ability to reach children and adults with ideas that were both childlike yet worldly as in The Lorax was unprecedented for his time. Just to be in his company and have a glimpse of the man who wrote so many delightful works would be incredible. ...
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The Sphere of Permitted Ideas
Big Think (blog)
This would mean that the most censorious, fundamentalist forms of Islam would be allowed to dictate to the entire literary world what is or isn't acceptable to say - and needless to say, the sphere of permitted ideas would dwindle virtually to nothing ...
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3 New Post Ideas to Spruce Up a Tired Blog - Cyber World – Learn ...
By Angelita
Blogging has become one of the most popular and lucrative industries online today. Many businesses are using blogging as a part of their content marketing strategy and many people are trying out blogging as a second flexible career.
Cyber World - Learn Better Ways To Blog
Allied World Announces Fourth Quarter 2011 Catastrophe Loss ...
By Allie Wickman
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG (NYSE: AWH) announced today that it expects to record approximately $55 million to $65 million in catastrophe related losses and loss expenses in the fourth quarter of 2011. This includes an ...
Benzinga - Stock Market Quotes,...
CoolBusinessIdeas.com | Free Report: Awesome Business Ideas of ...
By Marcel Sim
Awesome Business Ideas of 2011 There were plenty of awesome new business ideas happening around the world in 2011 – did you spot one of them in your home country? If you didn't, fret not. This special feature report, 'Awesome Business ...
CoolBusinessIdeas.com
Grand Ideas « Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle
By jerrypournelle
I can recall when winning the Cold War was considered grandiose, and negotiating a CoDominium of the United States and the USSR, First World and Second World to dominate the Third World was thought to be inevitable. Does anyone else ...
Chaos Manor - Jerry Pournelle
Interesting world history project ideas? - Yahoo! Answers
It needs to be about the Ottoman Turks and it can …
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid...
Outlandish Terrible Ideas In World wide web Marketing and ...
Outlandish Terrible Ideas In World wide web Marketing and advertising. Posted on January 17, 2012 by Engi. Ive viewed it, and I know youve viewed it also.
www.ta-eng.com/outlandish-terrible-ideas-in-world-wide-web-...
Girl Hairdo Inspiration Ideas? « World of Julie
Does anyone know of a book or website that has girl hairdo ideas beyond basic braids and ponytails? There must be something more instructional than just ...
worldofjulie.com/?p=3283
  
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