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The Most Influential People Only Have 6 People In Their Inner Circles
How many "best friends" do you have? Social scientists say most people count just four friends with whom they can discuss very important matters, but the maximum possible number of such friends is...
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It's Time For Apple To Take A Cue From How Other Companies Innovate
Apple CEO Tim Cook has a very tough job. Not only does he have to run the most valuable tech company on the planet, but he has to follow one of the greatest chief executives in history. Is he up to...
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22 Amazing Destinations You Can See With Google Street Views
WHOA, this week you have the least money in your bank account that you’ve ever had. You can literally only afford three things at the 99¢ Store.That trip you’d been thinking about is so far down the...
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A New Brand Of Conservatives Is Challenging The Way We Think About Local...
Ed Kilgore has noticed the dispute between individualists and communitarians on the Right. Name-checking Robert Nisbet’s The Quest for Community, Kilgore observes that:Communitarian conservatives...
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Even America's Food Aid Program Has Been Hijacked By Special Interests
IT IS the sad fate of American overseas food aid to occupy a policy “sweet spot”, says Chris Barratt, an expert in the subject at Cornell University.Its budget, the largest of any country’s, is big...
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The Best Weapon That Merchants Have To Combat 'Showrooming'
A recent study noted that, while shopping in a brick-and-mortar store, 67 percent of people check their smartphones to see if there’s a better price elsewhere, and the majority (62 percent) will leave...
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Here's What The Twinkies Comeback Trail Looks Like
Junk food enthusiasts everywhere can celebrate, as the return of Twinkies is assured. The cream-filled golden cakes synonymous with childhoods past will be on shelves as early as July. They will be...
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Gold Could Collapse Just Like Bitcoin Did
The power of fear is amazing to me.For the most part, otherwise sane individuals will do all sorts of crazy things once things become a little bit dicey.Want proof? Look no further than the gold...
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It's Official: Google Has Acquired News Stream Startup Wavii
Google has bought news summarisation service Wavii for an estimated $30m (£18m).Wavii, which was launched last year, has shut down its service so the technology can be incorporated into Google...
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American Kids Are Wearing Bulletproof Backpacks Now
The pink bulletproof rucksack that 5-year-old Jaliyah wears to school every day reaches almost down to her knees and weighs 3lbs even when empty, but for her Colorado father, the size and solidity are...
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Iraq Pulls Licenses Of Al-Jazeera, Other Channels Amid Sectarian Tensions
Iraq revokes operating licenses for Al-Jazeera, 9 other TV channels following wave of unrestBAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities announced Sunday that they had revoked the operating licenses of pan-Arab...
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China's Going To Build Massive 4G Mobile Networks—Snubbing European Companies...
STOCKHOLM/PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese telecom operators will start awarding contracts for super-fast mobile networks this year, kicking off the third wave of a global investment cycle that is reshaping...
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The Growing Divergence Between Rich And Poor Economies May Become A Source Of...
Those economies relatively rich at the start of the twentieth century have by and large seen their material wealth and prosperity explode. Those nations and economies that were relatively poor have...
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Here's What People Do When They Drop Out Of The Labor Force
In spite of some improvements in the US job markets, labor force participation continues to decline.The traditional explanation of course is that people are discouraged by the lack of job opportunities...
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Success Depends On Finding The Best Version Of Yourself
Truly happy and successful people get that way by becoming the best, most genuine version of themselves they can be.Not on the outside — on the inside. It's not about a brand, a reputation, a persona....
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Investigators Are Pursuing 'Persons Of Interest' In Boston Bombings Probe
LAWMAKER: FBI INVESTIGATING WHETHER BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECTS RECEIVED ANY TYPE OF TRAININGWASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is...
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The Best Of The White House Correspondents' Dinner After Party Gossip
So everyone in D.C. is likely still in bed, or throwing back two Tylenol and heading out for brunch right now. The nerds had their little prom. Obama made jokes, and Conan did too, and everyone looked...
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102 Hours In Pursuit Of The Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects
For five indelible days, the unthinkable became routine in Boston. And no one felt that more than the police and agents mounting the largest manhunt in regional history and parsing its most complex...
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The World's First Stock Market Crash Happened Nearly 300 Years Ago
Building on a long tradition of catastrophic financial market crashes, the economic meltdown caused by the bursting of the housing bubble in 2008 is only the latest in a long line of epic stock market...
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An Expected Interest Rate Cut In Europe Won't Boost Investor Confidence
Analysts increasingly expect the European Central Bank (ECB) to cut its target interest rate when it meets later this week, particularly if inflation data continues to show prices falling across the...
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