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Jan 30, 2012

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Feeding the super PAC beast
Washington Post
Post Forum members consistently offer thought-provoking, timelycomments on politics, national and international affairs. Weather Watchers consistently offer thought-provoking, timely comments on climates and forecasts. World Watchers consistently ...
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Jon Wertheim: 50 thoughts from Australian Open
SI.com
Whoever thought it would come down to a staring contest and, at nearly six hours, Nadal would blink first? Great quote from Jim Courier: "He's a delicate player, Rafa. When he's confident, he's the king of the world, but he vacillates.
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Answers to your 'flipped school' questions
CNN (blog)
The response to my guest post last week about flipping the classroom on CNN's Schools of Thought blog was overwhelming and thought-provoking. While I appreciate that there are varying opinions, I would like to respond to some of the topics that were ...
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Marketo Named CRM Watchlist Winner Two Years Running
Sacramento Bee
30, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Marketo, the fastest-growing provider in Revenue Performance Management (RPM) technology, announced today it has been named a top marketing solution by CRM thought leader Paul Greenberg on the 2012 CRM Watchlist.
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Mobli Teams Up with Lance Armstrong in New Video and Photo Sharing Partnership
Sacramento Bee
"When I was first introduced to Mobli, I immediately thought it was an extraordinary platform and an innovative yet accessible way for different audiences to share their stories," Armstrong said. "I'm excited to use Mobli as a direct channel for my ...
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Original sketch comedy show reunites 'MADtv' actors
Sacramento Bee
Peele: We've done sketch before, but the world doesn't really know us. And we just felt that there needed to be some kind of connection to introduce us to the world. That's the way you get on board with something like that, and certainly that's what ...
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Attention All Middle-School Poets! Announcing Cabot® Creamery Cooperative's ...
Sacramento Bee
Best known as makers of "The World's Best Cheddar," Cabot is owned by 1200 dairy farm families located throughout New England and upstate New York. For additional information on Cabot Creamery, visit http://www.cabotcheese.coop Reader comments on ...
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Writers & social purpose
The Hindu
Get real, Judge Sahib. The world has changed. New ways of expressingthought in art and literature have emerged since the times of Dickens. Impressionism, existentialism, post-modernism, magical-realism are some of the ways modern writers use.
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MARK KIESLING: Judge candidates by their ability, not their age
nwitimes.com
By Heather Eidson I've pretty much given up on expecting rational responses to columns and articles, but I was curious to know what people thought of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' response to Tuesday's State of the Union address by President Barack Obama ...
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US Political Divide Said Not So Wide
Discovery News
Despite appearances, the red-blue gap in the public's political opinionshasn't really changed in the last 40 years, an extensive study finds. The perception of an increasingly politically polarized American public isn't accurate.
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Weight Loss and Better Health With Guidance from "Wheat Belly"
Diets In Review (blog)
I had already given thought to wheat being an issue, this just confirmed what I thought.” Hazel has committed to 31 days wheat free. She taught me that gluten free, does not always mean wheat-free. What really caught my attention was the quote from Dr.
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Al-Azhar battles on several fronts
Al-Masry Al-Youm
His ascendance to the highest religious post in the Sunni world raised hopes that liberal reforms would finally reach Al-Azhar, which had seen more conservative schools of thought make inroads in recent years. As expected, Tayyeb quickly began changing ...
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Hologenix, LLC Develops New Science Advisory Board
Sacramento Bee
"By assembling research and thought leaders in their respective fields, we will continue to explore how our products can be used to help improve the quality of people's lives." Dr. Drake is the Bioscientific Staff Investigator at the Henry Ford Sleep ...
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Surveyed U.S. Psychiatrists Indicate They Would Prescribe Forest Laboratories ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Clinical data and the opinions of interviewed thought leaders indicate that emerging therapies have no advantage on this attribute over antidepressant augmentation with Abilify (Bristol-Myers Squibb/Otsuka Pharmaceutical), the sales leading ...
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The Unlisted Books
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
When I read that book, I didn't feel like I was just regurgitating the samethoughts and opinions that every high school student churns out, but rather that I was coming to brand new conclusions. This, of course, wasn't true, but it certainly felt like ...
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The Money Pit: Skip the house down payment and look to smarter investments
Sacramento Bee
1 online coupon site in the world. Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable comment, click the "Report Abuse" link below it. We will deletecomments containing inappropriate links ...
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The Cannabis Cult
Daily Mail (blog)
The tempest of raving, enraged and (in most cases) logic-free and fact-freecomments on my criticisms of 'Sir' Richard Branson are most interesting to the intelligent and informed mind. First of all, what is their purpose?
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Fed's 'Transparency Trap': Do We Really Want to Know Exactly What Bernanke Thinks?
Minyanville.com
This week we take a brief pause in our series on the choices facing the developed world to look at some items that are catching my attention. We will get back to the US next week, as somehow I think we will not solve our problems between now and next ...
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Post APAP 2012 Reflections: Global Synergy, Local Parts and Sums Adding Up
World Music Central
The world's entrepreneurial presenters and agents gear up for the event months in advance to organize close to 1300 showcases in the performing arts. These relatively brief, live performance experiences spark tremendous anticipation for the coming ...
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Honesty is the best policy: how to stop worrying and learn to love social media
HRmagazine.co.uk
There are a substantial number of people in the world with an opinion about you as an employer, and most of them don't work for you, and won't ask your permission. It includes everyone who works for you, everyone who has worked for you, everyone who's ...
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George Clooney Says Releasing Demi Moore's 911 Call Was 'Stupid'
Huffington Post
Nothing runs faster in Hollywood than gossip, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that George Clooney was full of opinions about the most au courant Sunday night at the SAG Awards. When asked about Demi Moore's recent hospitalization, ...
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Update on The Clarence Fund
St. Louis Game Time
In that week I have, unbelievably, had my opinions about the world at large and about the quality of man shaken. In general, you see, I tend to hope for the best in people and to expect the worst. I spin that as positivity tempered by realism, ...
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It's time to put tribal loyalties aside in order to reach the ultimate goal
Yorkshire Post
“We've employed full-time analysts at the RFL which has never been done before and so as well as getting your own personalopinions we look at it together as a staff as well. “We get some good statistical information on every player in the competition.
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Yorkshire Post
The SmarK Rant for WWE Royal Rumble 2012
Inside Pulse
So any of these ratings and opinions are subject to future “2020 Scott sez” re-examinations later where I make fun of myself, but for now it is what it is. Your hosts are Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler & Booker T. Smackdown Worldtitle: Daniel Bryan v.
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BREAKFAST DEALS: Genworth fillip
Business Spectator
Goldman Sachs picked up a joint lead manager spot last year, but The Australian Financial Review has gotten word that Macquarie Group, UBS and Commonwealth Bank are also set to be appointed, although nothing is official yet.
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The fruit that did not fall
Zamboanga Today Online
He had underestimated his adversary, ignored opinions and information, and did not consult his final decision with those of us who were in the frontline. What could have been a significant moral victory became a costly political setback for the USSR.
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Boos, Cheers for 'Gotterdammerung' at Met: Manuela Hoelterhoff
BusinessWeek
In “Gotterdammerung,” justice returns to the world through the sacrifice of Brunnhilde and the apocalyptic destruction of the old order. Canadian showman Robert Lepage masterminded the new staging with a huge team of collaborators from his Ex Machina ...
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Catholic Churches Distribute Letter Opposing Obama Healthcare Rule
ABC News (blog)
But they should be available for those who do not wish to bring another child into this world right now …. or ever. It's nice to know that we can have, for example, our gall bladders removed. But if yours is functioning just fine, would you feel ...
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Outspoken Thomas had little to lose: agent
Montreal Gazette
"Everyone's entitled to their opinion, obviously, it's just that athletes that have microphones in front of their faces every day have a forum or platform to communicate what they want, whether that's religious beliefs or political beliefs or whether ...
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Word on the Street: Trying to Filter out the Noise
The Goat Parade
In the world of professional sports, hype is an inevitability, especially considering the amount of money involved. Alongside the hype, though, is the also inevitable backlash, such that people even tire, if not necessarily scoff at, ...
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Reality bites - the trouble with commercial television
Daily Maverick
Deleese Williams is not exactly the most attractive woman in the world. She has crooked teeth. A partially deformed jaw. Ears that stick out of the side of her face. And a weak chin. But she was perfect for the ABC reality programme “Extreme Makeover” ...
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Behind the Wheels: An all-too-real Cinderella story
The Columbian
“I never would have thought there was any way in the world I could be 455 pounds. I wouldn't have thought that was remotely possible. But to some degree, I guess you have to be in some sort of denial to let things get to that point.
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Alice Goodman: The furore that finished me
The Guardian
If it's an evil, it's an evil all over the world." She wrote Klinghoffer at the suggestion of Sellars, and with some trepidation. "It was made more difficult, if you like, because my parents were still alive – very strong people with strong opinions.
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The Guardian
The good, the bad and the ugly
News24
I don't care if 85% or even 99% of the population is Christian, I am not one of them and the media has a responsibility to respect my constitutional right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion without unfair discrimination.
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Redeeming Higher Education
The Claremont Institute
"Lifelong tenure should be abolished," cry Andrew Hacker, a regular in the New York Review of Books, and Claudia Dreifus of the New York Times. "The only way for American higher education to remain competitive is to abolish tenure and impose mandatory ...
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Global executives say companies should be measured by their societal purpose
ITInews
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) has shared the results of a global survey exploring business leaders' attitudes on the purpose, impact, and leadership of business on society at the World Economic Forum 2012. The survey, sponsored by DTTL and ...
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The child king
Essential Baby
"In my own life, as a young woman, this is the one thing I never did - it was never even thought of. I never asked myself if I'd be a good mother, or whether I could meet the demands. Young women do this constantly now.
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Essential Baby
Address by the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil to the ...
VAdvert Press Center (press release)
Following is the text of the President's address on the occasion: On the eve of our 63rd Republic Day, I convey my warmest greetings to all of you across the country, from every walk of life and in different parts of the world.
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Morinville's youth worker has plenty of plans to keep youth engaged
MorinvilleNews.com
“These high school kids – their scope of the world is so much bigger than we think it is,” Richardson said. “A lot of people think that these kids only see school and their friends, but they really see global issues as well as community ones, too.
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MorinvilleNews.com
The Battle For Dorial Green-Beckham Comes To An End In 48 Hours
Rock M Nation (blog)
Everybody from USC to Florida has attempted to get his attention, the worldhas gotten to know the Pinkel-copter, etc. Missouri has been involved in plenty of high-profile, in-state recruiting battles since Gary Pinkel came to town, but most had a ...
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Guide to Marketing Chinese Products in U.S.
Newswise (press release)
They further considered whether an unrecognizable American or Asian spokesperson swayed opinions. Their research has been presented at academic conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia and has been published in two books. They have become the go-to ...
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The social union between Scotland and the UK: how would it fare with independence?
Open Democracy
A left version of this is the old idea of enabling 'progress' by rejecting identity so that the state can get on with governing – a strand of Fabian thought, re-expressed in New Labour – and cancelling the regional and national connections in order to ...
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SOUND OFFS FOR JAN. 30
SunHerald.com
I think the old Gulfport VA property would be an ideal location for a worldclass amusement park. Its location, size, and established infrastructure would be very attractive if marketed to the right investment group, but who am I? Just a 35-year-old, ...
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Christian Catfights: Why Women Leaders Don't Support Each Other
ChristianityToday.com (blog)
Second, Christian women don't have high opinions of other Christian women. In layman's terms, we don't have each other's back. In the Christianworld, most of our attention has been focused on how men, as institutional gatekeepers, have prevented women ...
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Does Sarah Palin Want Obama to be Re-Elected?
Huffington Post (blog)
But since when is actual knowledge about how the process works a disqualifier for your opinions? And wait a minute; I thought Palin said people who knew Reagan should be believed, so why are the far more numerous former colleagues (not to mention wives ...
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NEW ZEALAND Summer News, Jan 30, 2012

Concert review: Laneway 2012 at Silo Park
New Zealand Herald
It has been a fraught time for music festivals this summer but Laneway, at Silo Park in the Wynyard Quarter, bucked the trend with a near sell-out crowd of 6500, pulling the biggest crowd in its three-year history and in its first time on the newly ...
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IDEAS, Jan 30, 2012


IDEAS

25 C's of Innovation
Innovation Excellence (blog)
Catalyze ideas and show you value them through instilling a transparent ideamanagement process. The rest of the “C's” demonstrate an idea management process. 9. Control the flow and real work on ideas, by setting some rules to keep the propositions ...
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The presidential losers' club
Boston Globe
As confetti falls on the newly elected leader of the free world, his former opponent will go home and begin thinking about what to do next. Inevitably, whether for incumbent Barack Obama or his challenger, that moment of defeat will be an excruciating ...
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Boston Globe
Software to predict infectious ideas
Northern Voices Online
C) Do these guys know the web? It is a wholly different world. The ideas that become popular here have nothing to do with their popularity in the real world. There is a certain kind of technophile community that actually populates the web, ...
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Leonard Cohen pitches some Old Ideas to the critics of New York (with audio)
Vancouver Sun
NEW YORK — Sitting in a dimly lit New York City bar wearing a trilby hat and a dark suit, no tie, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen pauses before responding to a question about how his ideas have changed over his lengthy career.
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Letters to change the world
BBC News
Can you imagine the impact of having the ability to teach more third worldyouths the skills needed to become a teacher, a philosopher or even a doctor? They could even know the ideas behind freedom and democracy? The impact would be huge!
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BBC News
Arduino: the face of Free hardware
The Hindu
'Free' and 'Open Source' are today common parlance in the world of technology, software in particular. What was once perceived to be a concept alienated from business, and economically impractical, has now proven to be a business model that not only ...
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The Hindu
Company C Contemporary Ballet review: 10th season
San Francisco Chronicle
The emphasis was on the contemporary as the intrepid Company C Contemporary Ballet embarked on its 10th anniversary season Friday night at the Lesher Center in Walnut Creek with a peppy, agreeable program showcasing works by a few of the latter-day ...
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The vagabond days of Cass McCombs, performing Saturday at The Crofoot
MLive.com
Maybe the idea of a young man leaving home to look for America seems quaint or idyllic now. That is, until you talk to Cass McCombs, who has quietly become one of the indie world's most heralded musicians – single "County Line" off his spring 2011 ...
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MLive.com
Cohen: Product of a restless mind: Gingrich demonstrates 'both ideas and gall'
GoErie.com
The Gingrich I seek is not the man above, but the one of "big ideas." The term gets thrown around a lot and Gingrich himself is apt to think his every idea is big. His mind is always in the tumble cycle. And even when he is spouting boilerplate, ...
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Global warming is 'not the end of world'
Calgary Herald
"But it's not the end of the world," Lomborg says. "And certainly the way we're tackling it right now is not working, and it hasn't worked for the last 20 years." Lomborg was in Calgary to give the first lecture in the 2012 Distinguished Speaker Series ...
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Strategic Planning Meeting Expert Mary C. Kelly Offers Ways to Improve ...
MarketWatch (press release)
25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Large companies miss opportunities for growth and profits if they fail to create effective strategic planning meetings, says strategic planning meeting facilitator Mary C. Kelly, Ph.D. and author of 360 Degrees of ...
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Red Wings' Mike Babcock says 'you always have to be better'
Vancouver Sun
It's this kind of progressive, outside-the-box thinking that has made Babcock one of hockey's elite coaches, arguably its best, and the only winner of the game's trifecta: the Stanley Cup, Olympic Games and world championship.
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Having a winter blast in Montgomeryville
Montgomery Newspapers
Photo by Mark C Psoras Montgomery Township Recreation Coordinator Sharon Tucker stood inside the Montgomery Mall on Saturday afternoon, soaking in her first Winter Blast experience – an event that links multiple townships and boroughs as one to benefit...
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Man on the moon: Newt Gingrich's lifetime fixation with space
Washington Post (blog)
Newt Gingrich's promise to put a colony on the moon is only the latest in a long history of space-related ideas from the former House speaker. View Photo Gallery: The former House speaker is seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
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Mon City memories alive, well in Illinois
Monessen Valley Independent
By Ron Paglia, FOR THE VALLEY INDEPENDENT If you have memories to share or anidea for a story, contact Ron Paglia via e-mail or c/o The Valley Independent, Eastgate 19, Monessen, PA 15062. Bob Inserra has lived in Park Ridge, Ill., for some 54 years, ...
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Many Americans uninformed, but still wary of Mormon beliefs
USA TODAY
2006 photo by Douglas C. Pizac,, AP Tourism destination: The vast Mormon Temple hosts 5 million visitors a year, but few Americans truly understand the practices of the church's followers. 2006 photo by Douglas C. Pizac,, AP Tourism destination: The ...
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USA TODAY
The State of the Union, With the Future in Mind
New York Times (blog)
By ANDREW C. REVKIN Once you watch or read the speech (here's the text, as prepared for delivery; here's the Republican response), weigh in here. An “enhanced” version of the speech was shown on the YouTube player above. I'll also look for Twitter...
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CarterEnergy Seminar Educates Its C-store Operators
CSNews Online
"We live in an ever-changing business world, and we all need to adapt with it in order to excel," explained CarterEnergy Area Manager David Achten, who noted the event exceeded expectations. Attendees learned how to analyze income statements, ...
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Debussy celebration a highlight of Happening festival
Calgary Herald
Four world premieres of orchestral versions of music by an early 20th-century French musical giant; an “acousmatic” work for Balinese thumb piano; and lectures on aural pollution by a Canadian composer and radio lecturer who focuses on soundscape ...
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Neuberger exhibit explores Russian-born John Graham's influence on American ...
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Yet these artists were developing their avant-garde ideas long before then, particularly during a little-studied period between the two world wars. They all shared a powerful mentor during this stretch, too: the magnetic Russian-born painter John ...
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Johnson & Johnson Joins Public and Private Partners in the Largest Coordinated ...
Sacramento Bee
30 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Johnson & Johnson joined the World Health Organization (WHO), 12 other pharmaceutical companies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the US and UK governments, the World Bank, and officials from endemic countries in a new ...
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HOUR STORY: A triumphant piece of hardware
STLtoday.com
ANDREW JANSEN / JOURNAL Jackson Chambers, 1, of Fenton, checks out his reflection in the World Series trophy. Let us spend an hour with you. Can you think of interesting places where we should go or people we should meet? Send your ideas to Scott ...
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Tunisians protest conservative Islam
Montreal Gazette
Sarah Kalthoum, a retired teacher in her 70s, said she was concerned by what she viewed as regressive ideas from Salafists. "We spent our lives educating people, and now some want us to go back in time 14 centuries," she said.
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6 security companies to watch
PC Advisor
By Tim Greene | Network World US | 26 January 12 This group of security companies includes several that want to capitalize on technology ideas that were originally devised to serve communities of special interest but could now take on a wider ...
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Is there still big man syndrome in Africa?
Moneyweb.co.za
ALEC HOGG: This World Economic Forum outside broadcast is proudly brought to you by the Discovery Invest Guaranteed Escalator Annuity. Dr Michael Useem, Director of the Centre for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University ...
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