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Feb 17, 2012

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What I'm going to do – Coronation boss
Moneyweb.co.za
Its domestic and global balanced portfolios ranked first over three years and second over five years in the Alexander Forbes and Global Large Manager Watch. It was also nominated Best Large Fund House. Headline earnings soared 38% to R606.8m and the ...
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When supermodels turn super-mogul
Casey Weekly Berwick
Last year Brazilian beauty Gisele Bundchen was tipped by Forbes as likely to become the world's first billionaire supermodel. According to Forbes, which has estimated her annual income is $US45 million, she could be a billionaire by the time she turns ...
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Supermodels turn super-mogul
Stuff.co.nz
You get what's known as a super-mogul - and more and more of the world's most famous fashion figures are leaping off the catwalks and newsstands and into the ranks of this elite club. Last year Brazilian beauty Gisele Bundchen was tipped byForbes as ...
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Forbes Ranks Snap-on Number One in “Best Franchises to Start for the Buck” Listing
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The Snap-on Tools Franchise opportunity heads the list in the Forbes February 27, 2012 edition's article on the ten best franchises to start, entitled “Proven Path.” Forbes determined the ranking after evaluating data from ...
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Secret papers turn up heat on global-warming deniers
Salon
But virtually all scientists continue to believe that most indicators suggest the world as we know it is slowly ending, and that humans are to blame. Nature – oceans, deserts, crops, animals and insects – is in the process of being transformed by ...
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Salon
Forbes Ranks Snap-on Number One in "Best Franchises to Start for the Buck" Listing
MarketWatch (press release)
KENOSHA, Wis., Feb 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Snap-on Tools Franchise opportunity heads the list in the Forbes February 27, 2012 edition's article on the ten best franchises to start, entitled "Proven Path."Forbes determined the ranking after ...
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My 2 Cents: Global Warming Debate
news9.com KWTV
I searched Global Warming in the headlines today. One of the first I saw was in Forbes.Top German Environmentalist Cools on Global Warming. But there were others. Soil Erosion increasing Global Warming. Can a Prius Increase Global Warming.
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Missing From Moody's Downgrade List? Warren Buffett's Favorite Bank
Forbes
There's a party being held for the world's biggest banks. There's a problem though: Moody's is hosting. Notice someone missing? That would be Wells Fargo, the nation's fourth largest bank with over $1.3 trillion in assets. Surely this is a party Wells...
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Obama's Budget: The Decline and Fall of the American Economy
Forbes
Obama explains in his budget message, “To succeed and thrive in theglobal, high tech economy, we need America to be a place with the highest-skilled, highest-educated workers; the most advanced transportation and communication networks; ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: Mylan
Forbes
Mylan is a global company that develops, licenses, manufactures, and distributes pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. One of Mylan's main competitors in the pharmaceuticals industry is Pfizer (PFE). Other competitors in the healthcare ...
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U.S. Men & Women Agree Southwest Airlines, Google and Dove are Most Desired...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Second Annual "Most Desired Brands in the US" just released by leading global strategic neuroinsight firm Buyology Inc and uSamp, a leader in providing targeted audiences and SaaS technologies for business intelligence. This list is the only report ...
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The Passion Continues -- Art Sales Soar in London
Forbes
Noted the FT, for instance, “After a sharp drop in interest following the 2008 crisis, global investors have turned back to art as a way to diversify portfolios and hedge against the negative effects of volatile equity and currency markets and high ...
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When supermodels turn super-mogul
Daily Advertiser
Last year Brazilian beauty Gisele Bundchen was tipped by Forbes as likely to become the world's first billionaire supermodel. According to Forbes, which has estimated her annual income is $US45 million, she could be a billionaire by the time she turns ...
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Heartland Documents: Whose Biases are Being Revealed Here?
Forbes
The only people who believe skeptics are anti-science per se, and therefore might believe skeptics would scheme to dissuade teachers from teaching science, are the more political alarmists (a good example was posted today right here at Forbes, ...
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CDW-G Named Winner of Global and Americas Government Partner of the Year ...
MarketWatch (press release)
VERNON HILLS, Ill., Feb 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CDW-G today announced it has been named the recipient of a Global VMware Partner Network Award and the Americas recipient of a VMware Partner Network Award in the Government Partner of the Year ...
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U.S. stocks and gold to drive higher
MarketWatch
They have authored dozens of reports and articles and have spoken at investment seminars around the world. Their work has been featured in newspapers in several countries, in such publications as Business Week,Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, ...
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Schwarzman's payday risks irking private equity paymasters
Reuters
By Greg Roumeliotis and Bernard Vaughan | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stephen Schwarzman, the boss of the world's largest private equity firm, made his fortune by being a financier who delivered outsized returns for investors from buying, restructuring and ...
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HP CEO Meg Whitman: Don't Call It a Comeback
eWeek
... unlike any other in the world, came with a clear message. Lest anyone miss it, HP held an event in Las Vegas this week, alongside its worldwide partner conference, to shine a light on it. Endpoint Technologies analyst Roger Kay, writing for Forbes, ...
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DEALTALK-Schwarzman's payday risks irking private equity paymasters
Reuters
Other publicly traded private equity firms, such as KKR & Co LP and ApolloGlobal Management LLC, are also generating more of their revenue from fees but as yet it hasn't reached the proportion at Blackstone. "As the industry has matured some ...
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John P Calamos: the richest investor you've never heard of
MoneyWeek
The author of two books on investing, he ranked 258th on the Forbes Rich List in 2006. Not bad for the son of a Greek immigrant who, according toForbes, swept floors at his parents' grocery store in Chicago. Now in his seventies, Calamos first became ...
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CentraState Healthcare System Selects Cognizant for Developing ICD-10 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
With over 50 delivery centers worldwide and approximately 137700 employees as of December 31, 2011, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest ...
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Neal Ungerleider
Fast Company
I have written for publications including Slate, Forbes, Foreign Policy, Esquire, Wired and others. For clips, check out my homepage... I also keep a constantly updated Twitter feed. Unmanned Drones Go From Afghanistan To Hollywood Get to know the ...
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Fast Company
Note to SuccessFactors: you can stop selling yourself
ZDNet (blog)
At least that's the impression from the blizzard of self promotional advertorial coming out of Forbes AdVoice, SAP's latest propaganda mouthpiece. Let's take the most recent piece and start picking it apart: Some people who know SAP only by its past ...
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ZDNet (blog)
The Career Lessons of Jeremy Lin
FINS
Young professionals need to do the same, said Ginny Clarke, chief executive of the Chicago-based HR consulting firm Talent Optimization Partners and author of the book "Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work.
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Up coming Events
Edmonton Journal
25 (rivercreetickets.com) - Winter Roots Blues Cabaret featuring Mark DuFresne from Roomful of Blues, Dave Babcock and the Nightkeepers and special guest Rockin' Roy Forbes, Century Casino, Feb. 25 (Tix) -Jann Arden with guests, Jubilee Auditorium, ...
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Lamb comes off the boil
Land
Forbes Livestock and Agency Company director Tim Mackay, Forbes, said there's not really any signs of the market picking up in the short term. “There's been a bit of vendor backlash to the cheaper prices,” he said. “This week we are seeing the lamb ...
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Despite dismal record, Charlotte Bobcats' business is improving
Charlotte Observer
Forbes magazine estimates the team saw an operating loss of $25.5 million last year on revenue of $101 million - the steepest loss in the league. The team's 3-26 record and 16-game losing streak are also the league's worst. Still, the Bobcats are doing...
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Charlotte Observer
Suffolk Downs proposal may deter casino rivals
The MIT Tech
The Boston-born chief executive of Las Vegas Sands and the 16th-richest person in the world, according to Forbes Magazine, is hesitant to bid for a casino in his native state because he believes that the fix is in for Suffolk Downs, the billionaire ...
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The Mogul Who Buys Black-History Treasures
The Root
Publicly, Rubenstein is known as the co-founder of the Washington-based Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest and most diversified private-equity firms, with approximately $153 billion in assets under management. Forbesput his personal net worth ...
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Entrepreneurship Prof Looks At Social Versus Commercial Entrepreneurs
Portfolio.com (blog)
Read More Better World Books is a bookstore that aims to do good, but it's also a for-profit company that has just gotten into the black with a business model that brings books to needy children. GOOD, a website and magazine that focuses on social ...
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AU Summit from June 23-30, 2012 in Lilongwe, Malawi…
Spyghana.com
Africans who are waiting for the current global economic crisis to pass before hosting AU Summits fail to see the urgency and priority of a functioning AU in addressing these very economic problems that urgently require attention.
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Weather Pattern Could Fuel Ala. Tornadoes
Weather Channel
"There is no fool-proof way to predict how bad a tornado season or year will be," Weather Channel Severe Weather Expert Dr. Greg Forbes said. "How bad a tornado season will be is often determined by just a few days with tornado outbreaks on which all ...
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Fraudulent Attack On Heartland Institute Exposes Alarmist Desperation
Hot Air
It made statements like this: Development of our “Global Warming Curriculum for K-12 Classrooms” project [emphasis original]. Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective. To counter this we are considering launching an ...
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Top US media interview Alwaleed
Saudi Gazette
... prominent media offices there and in wide-ranging interviews discussed his company's investments and the current global economic scenario, a press statement of the company said here Thursday. He was interviewed by Luisa Kroll for Forbes Magazine, ...
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40% of Global Mobile Data Traffic from Asia by 2016: Report - Forbes
The monthly global mobile data traffic will exceed 10 exabytes by 2016 and Asia will account for 40% of ... From Asia with news on web, mobile and social media ...
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Apple Now The World's Largest Smartphone Seller ... - Forbes
2/15/2012 @ 1:05PM |1342 views. Apple Now The World's Largest Smartphone Seller According To New Report. 0 comments, 0 called-out. + Comment now ...
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Diamonds From Zimbabwe Might Fund Bloodshed, Says New - Forbes
Diamonds From Zimbabwe Might Fund Bloodshed, Says New Report ... In a recent report published by Global Witness titled “Diamonds: A good deal for ...
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Thor Muller Q&A: Customer Service in a Social Media World - Forbes
Connecting marketers to the Forbes audience. ... Interestingly, the increased global connectedness seems to be making older, more ....gyro's News Stream ...
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Older Workers Staying On The Job - Forbes
I'm the AARP Jobs expert and write the Great Jobs for Retirees column on AARP. org and am a contributing editor for U.S. News & World Report. Other spots I ...
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Hacking Scandal Cost News. Corp $87 Million Last Quarter - Forbes
The on-going scandal and investigation of now-defunct The News of theWorld forced News Corp. to take a one-time charge of $87 million, a 3 cents per share ...
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Huawei and ZTE: Swapping Networking for Cellphones? - Forbes
That figure was enough to propel Huawei to the world's sixth largest ... in the important India market, where new network construction has virtually come to a halt ...
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"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool People Using ... - Forbes
The problem with this argument is that it is false: global warming has not ...to my previous Forbes posts, op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, newsstories, and ...
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Goldie Hawn on Giving Kids "Back Their Smiles" - Forbes
When I'm not on the road, I can be found writing this column and for Monster.com, The Huffington Post, and US News and World Report. If you have a highly ...
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News Corp. Without Newspapers Would Be Addition by ... - Forbes
The taint has spread from the News of the World, now closed, to the Sun and the Times of London. More than 20 News International current or former employees ...
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Making Sure Corruption Remains "Made In America" - Forbes
It is Avon's turn in the barrel, as news of a federal Grand Jury investigation... really wants to use its influence to get the world of global business to operate on a ...
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC News, Feb 17, 2012

Pet Conversations: Short Films Providing Glimpses into the World of Pet Lovers
Petside
Famed National Geographic photographer Cary Wolinsky and his filmmaker son Yari Wolinsky realized these conversations were revealing about people. They decided to capture people's chatter about their beloved pets in a series of short documentary films ...
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Petside
Talking Dictionaries Give Life to Rare Languages
Wall Street Journal
At a science conference here on Friday, Mr. Harrison of Swarthmore College and his colleagues at National Geographic's Enduring Voices project unveiled a set of online talking dictionaries that for the first time document the sound, ...
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Armed Thai Officials Raid Wildlife Rescue NGO – News Watch
By International League of Conservation Photographers
Disturbing Video of civet being confiscated. ... The views expressed in this guest blog post are those of the International League of Conservation Photographers and not necessarily those of the National GeographicSociety. Readers are ...
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Video -- Violent Monkey Takeover Caught on Camera -- National ...
Video. Animal News · Culture & Places News · Environment News · History News ... February 9, 2012—"This doesn't look good," says National Geographic ...
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Shark-Attack Deaths Highest in 19 Years—Travel Trends to Blame?
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News : National Geographic World Music
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Best News Pictures of 2011: World Press Winners - National ...
Search National Geographic. Search nationalgeographic.com. SiteVideo ... Jury member Joel Sartore told National Geographic News, "Most, if not all, of the ...
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Russians "Close" to Drilling Into Antarctica's Lake Vostok
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Russian Scientists Breach Antarctica's Lake Vostok—Confirmed
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Nat Geo TV Blogs. Find related news and content from your favorite NGC and Nat Geo WILD shows, including behind-the-scenes videos, photos, and more.
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Black Hole in Milky Way Seen Snacking on Asteroids?
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Venus Spinning Slower Than Thought ... - National Geographic News
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Great Eruption - National Geographic News
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Oldest Animal Discovered—Earliest Ancestor of Us All?
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New "Porta Potty" Flower Discovered - National Geographic News
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National Geographic Photographer, Paul Nicklen
In the video below, I interview award-winning National Geographicphotographer, Paul Nicklen, at his home in Vancouver Island, British Columbia via Skype.
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National Geographic News _ Spiders Jump With Deadly Accuracy in ...
National Geographic News series page at Hulu.comResearchers have discovered a unique visual attribute that jumping spiders use in attacking and catching ...
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National Geographic pair killed in helicopter crash - World news ...
US, Australian filmmakers for National Geographic die in helicopter crash... msnbc.com staff and news service reports .... Popular videos currently unavailable ...
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Life on Earth Began on Land, Not in Sea? - National Geographic News
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Marion teen gets published in National Geographic - KFVS12 News ...
... Makayla Hayes from Marion learned she'd won grand-prize in NationalGeographic's 5t. ... KFVS12 News & Weather Cape Girardeau, Carbondale, Poplar BluffMarion teen .... Teen charged with murder of newborn daughter Video included ...
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National Geographic's 'Digital Nomad' Andrew Evans ... - Yahoo! News
21, 2012, Andrew Evans, National Geographic Traveler magazine's "Digital Nomad," ... Explore news, videos and much more based on what your friends are ...
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National Geographic cinematographer killed in copter crash ...
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National Geographic's 'Digital Nomad' Andrew Evans Embarks on ...
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Video Cobra Vs Rat Snake National Geographic | Car News ...
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