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Nov 12, 2011

LATEST World News, Nov 12, 2011


Dream makers: where the world's best-loved toys are born
Telegraph.co.uk
Executives such as Hirtle make regular tours of the world's professional inventors to acquire new ideas. Major ports of call are New York, California, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Australia, London and Israel. But top of the list, Hirtle says, is Chicago. And all ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Social Issues: World Pneumonia Day | It's All About Sanitation and Vaccination
The Daily Activist
Social Issues – Today is World Pneumonia Day and the Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia (GCACP) teams up with more than 125 NGO's, government agencies and foundations, academic institutions, and community based organizations, including the ...
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India: The World's Secret Silicon Valley
The Atlantic
(After all, you don't hear about an Indian equivalent to Google, iPod or Viagra.) Bu they're wrong. In more than 600 captive research and development (R&D) centers across India today, corporations are designing and building amazing new things. ...
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The Atlantic
Best frenemies: politicians and the press
The Guardian
One of the few seriously profitable ones left was the News of the World. Murdoch showed how much it mattered in the grand scheme of his globalempire by shutting it down at a moment's notice. Plenty of his investors want him to dump the rest of his ...
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The Guardian
Mideast needs to invest heavily in aviation
gulfnews.com
Today, about 50 per cent of the world's population lives in cities, by 2030, this will be nearly 60 per cent — and that will have a direct impact on air traffic demand. By 2030, the world's top 20 large hub cities will be located in the Asia-Pacific ...
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gulfnews.com
Top 5 Retro Games That Need The FPS Treatment
Cinema Blend
Who do they trust and who are the real bad guys in this globalcatastrophe? The Objective: Travel around the world and fight in various suburban neighborhoods using the latest in Hollywood style martial arts and sci-fi weaponry. ...
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Cinema Blend
PAL row, Occupy Wall Street
Inquirer.net
Toward a new social contract The challenge to the Philippine and other governmentstoday is how to persuade all industry stakeholders to sit down and forge a new social contract fit for the new millennium. Such a contract cannot be forged without ...
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Getting Louder in the Call for an AIDS-Free Generation
Huffington Post (blog)
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and other partners have coalesced around a global plan led by PEPFAR and UNAIDS to accomplish this, and end virtuallyall new HIV infections in children. As Secretary Clinton said, this is one of the ...
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Clipper Round the World Race - Singapore heads to port for repairs
Sail World
Sailing at great speeds with grins all round, this has really been champagne sailing at its best. 'It's great to see our new crew who, for the first few days suffered from seasickness, now fully recovered and enjoying life on board,' continues Rupert. ...
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Sail World
The Wild West of Branded Entertainment: Discovery, Coca-Cola, IFC/Sundance ...
Hollywood Today Newsmagazine
Michelle Klein, Smirnoff's VP of global marketing, communication and digital, sited a 60% increase in web traffic and over 100000 entries into Madonna's search for theworld's best dancer as a result of the campaign, and said it will soon grow to 50 ...
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Meet the new death dealers
Salon
By Andrew Feinstein This article was adapted from the new book, "The Shadow World," from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In our twenty-first-centuryworld the lethal combination of technological advances, terrorism, globalcrime, state-sponsored violence ...
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Salon
How to lose customers and alienate stakeholders...
Equitymaster.com
Know all thatís going on in the global markets through the free daily financial e-column The Daily Reckoning. Authored by Bill Bonner, a three-time New York Times best-selling author, the Daily Reckoning is published in 3 languages and is read by ...
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Do The Right Thing
Sunday Leader
Read the chapter in my 2004 book on the Global Economy and New World titled, Brainpower: The Rising Power of Women. An updated version in the US, Sri Lanka (English and Sinhala) and China, is in progress. Every enterprise must have a business model. ...
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Sunday Leader
The rise and fall of a castle in the air
The Hindu
The corporate sector wanted all top executives to fly Kingfisher and they came back admiring the service. Three key mistakes It was when the good times seemed to last forever that Mallya made his first strategic mistake. Deccan Aviation's Capt GR ...
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The Hindu
Q&A: Sushant P Rao, World Economic Forum
Business Standard
From here onward, we will now alternate the Summit each year betweenNew Delhi and another state in India. What is the significance of this year's theme, 'Linking Leadership with Livelihood'? For the past decade, India has placed particular emphasis on ...
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Business Standard
Leaders of the pack
The Age
Not the Top 10, or the hottest, the best-known, or the richest. But who actually matters? Which artists are continually pushing boundaries, investigating new methods, forging new forms of expression, influencing their peers and shaping the way artists, ...
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The Age
Developed world needs a BASIC lesson in Durban
China Daily
The climate conferences in Poznan, Poland, in 2008, and Copenhagen and Cancun were swept in the tide generated by the global economic storm. Today, the eurozone debt crisis is all the news. From Ireland to Greece, and now presumably Italy, the eurozone...
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Weekly Market Recap: Berlusconi Steals Greece's Spotlight, MF Global Deepens ...
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
It was all but settled earlier today that that House Speaker Filippos Petsalnikos would head Greece's new coalition government, only for it to emerge hours later that there was no successor due to feuding between the two main political parties. ...
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China marks Super Singles Day: Perfect way to celebrate 'luckiest day of the ...
Daily Mail
More than 50 couples got hitched today at one of the world's most famous wedding venues - Gretna Green. The Scottish Borders town witnessed elopements from as far afield as New Zealand, Canada and Germany - including two civil partnerships. ...
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Daily Mail
R.E.M.'s final songs add to lasting legacy
Boston Herald
Monday, fans may get some sense of closure when REM's final new songs (“Hallelujah,” “A Month of Saturdays” and “We All Go Back to Where We Belong”) come out on anew hits collection. It's a tiny token from the biggest little band in the world. ...
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EMI: the sad demise of a very British company
The Guardian (blog)
On Thursday night it took over its EMI imprint Parlophone and from whom anew album is now anticipated. Assuming it all clears the European Commission, US antitrust bodies and the aggressive lobbying of the independent sector, EMI's record music arm ...
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The Guardian (blog)
MF Global Customers Have Few Options to Access Frozen Cash
BusinessWeek
Customers who still had open positions have been transferred to new brokerages with about 60 percent of their cash collateral, and now face margin calls for the rest, which is locked up at the MF Global accounts. Jarrell said customers with open ...
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Remarks With Nina Easton of Fortune Magazine at the CEO Summit on Women and ...
US Department of State (press release)
Today, only about 3 percent of the CEOs of Fortune Global 500 companies are women. So you might ask yourself, why, in 2011, are women still seemingly so shut out of the economy? Laws, customs, and values all contribute to the economic glass ceiling ...
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Playing It Safe
Barron's
You all run pretty sophisticated portfolios for very high-net-worth clients. Does that mean you're using some of the newest exchange-traded products? Bachrach: No. Right now, we are in all "plain-vanilla" ETFs. I like ETFs that actually own something, ...
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Spam Researchers Help Bust Global Cybercrime Ring
PCWorld
Created in 2006, the UAB Spam Data Mine churns through a million spam messages every day and now contains some 550 million junk e-mail messages in its database that can be used by law enforcement agencies to analyze activities such as spear phishing,...
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Asia-Pacific Countries Brace for Worsening Europe Debt Crisis
BusinessWeek
Global performance will be dragged down, and then there may be an awakening.” Peru's government will do whatever is necessary to maintain economic growth, Finance Minister Miguel Castilla said in an interview in Honolulu today. ...
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It's been a decade since Flight 587 crashed over Queens, NY -- a milestone ...
Salon
Once upon a time, all airlines were regionals. Northwest Airlines is todaypart of Delta, but itself was pieced together from no fewer than four regionals; in 1986 Northwest merged with Republic Airlines. Republic, for its part, was the recent ...
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Salon
Italy's Yields, Iran's Nukes, School Scandal
Wall Street Journal
World Wildlife Fund via AP A black rhino is transported by helicopter in South Africa. Nineteen of the endangered animals were moved from the Eastern Cape to Limpopo province. Half of voters now identify either with the tea party or Occupy Wall Street ...
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Wall Street Journal
The Climate Movement Temporarily Stops an Oil Sands Pipeline. Now They Need to ...
TIME (blog)
There have been few even partial victories about global warming in recent years so that makes this an important day. The White House may deny it, but political calculations almost certainly played a role in the Keystone delay—for once, at least, ...
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CAIR: Tenn. Legislator Says Remove All Muslims From Military
U.S. Politics Today
About US Politics Today Aimed at business leaders and global professionals worldwide, US Politics Today is a media monitoring service provided by EIN News. About EIN News Established in 1995, EIN News began by supplying business professionals and ...
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How To Be An Optimist In A Pessimistic Time
TechCrunch
We can see a new world of efficiency and connectedness coming into view. But there is the real risk it could be undermined or even stopped by those who do not want globalprosperity⎯be they criminals, terrorists, or renegade governments. But if all of ...
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Mickey Mouse Went Gangbusters Today. Here's Why.
Motley Fool
Each month, you'll get market commentary from Bill Mann, Motley Fool Funds Portfolio Manager (and former lead advisor of Motley Fool Global Gains), plus top holdings, performance data and more. You'll laugh, you'll cry... and maybe you'll decide you ...
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O'NEILL: How I survived World War I
Paradise Post
Considered in those terms, we are all veterans, survivors of an untold number of wars, of spears tossed at our most distant ancestors, and of shells that rained death down on other people's more recent progenitors, not ours. This weekend, we celebrate ...
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Kingston Digital Identifies Best Practices for Portable Data Security ...
Benchmark Reviews
Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today identified best practices and the risks associated with a lack of security policies in organizations using ...
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Telefónica's CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
Today I have here with me Julio Linares, Chief Operating Officer; José María Álvarez-Pallete, Head of the new Telefónica Europe and Santiago Fernández Valbuena, Head of Telefónica Latin America. Also with me are the heads of the new global units of ...
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EXCERPT: Our education gap
Virginia Gazette
I think education is our greatest problem today. 25% of our students in high school drop out. What are you going to do with them? What jobs are they going to get? I grew up in a mill town outside of Philadelphia, on the Schuykill River. ...
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Glosculptor, ISDS Releases JBlocks 1.1 for iPad and iPhone
iPhone News Tracker
Seashells, starfish and marbles have never been less amusing, now that they're on their way to world domination, and the only thing standing in their way is you! Participate in Neptune's greatest challenge yet with JBlocks, the newest spin on the ...
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Stuck in the middle with Europe
Washington Post
His firm, MF Global, is now bankrupt. We'll know that Europe is emerging from its mess the moment that bearish traders get caught going the wrong way. The euro-pessimists should be modestly nervous that the new Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, ...
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More Sound and Fury, Market Barely Budges
Barron's
Jason Trennert, proprietor of market-analysis firm Strategas Group, says the manic-depressive day-to-day action shows that "the magnitude of the world's macroeconomic concerns has led the global financial markets to arc between the poles of utter ...
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Insight Management Corp.'s Subsidiaries Simpson Brothers Greenhouse and Simply ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Simpson Brothers Greenhouse will now take advantage of those technologies, their patents and manufacturing processes as a model to test in the real world to help grow the global demand for any and all new products to be produced under Insight ...
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TMCnet SIP Phones Week in Review
TMC Net
By Erin Harrison TMCnet editors were busy this week covering the latest SIP Phones news this week. Here are this week's top stories: SoliCall (News - Alert), an Israel-based company specializing in software for noise reduction, echo cancellation and ...
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NBR Transcripts for November 11, 2011
PBS Nightly Business Report
It was below $30 a year. Even with today`s sell-off, we`re seeing a gain of more than 70 percent compared to where we were 12 months ago. All 30 Dow stocks were higher. The second best after Disney (NYSE: DIS) (NYSE: DIS) was Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) ...
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Fired MF Global Worker Calls Corzine `Selfish, Greedy' (Video)
Washington Post
Comments our editors find particularly useful or relevant are displayed in TopComments, as are comments by users with these badges: . Replies to those posts appear here, as well as posts by staff writers. All comments are posted in the AllComments ...
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PHOTO GALLERY: World War I vets remembered at Sibley Park
Mankato Free Press
More than 15 million military personnel and civilians lost their lives in an event made allthe more deadly by two new innovations — mechanization and chemical warfare. More than 1300 Blue Earth County residents served in World War I; 43 died. “Today ...
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Scientists who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong ...
The Washington Post said the BEST study had 'settled the climate change debate ' ...Muller, left, says the latest findings settle the climate debate once and for all. ... But a report to be published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation ... an effort to devise a new and more accurate way of computing changes in world ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics
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