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Tycoon Fredriksen on ship buying spree

Top News Tycoon Fredriksen on ship buying spree Tue, May 08 06:03 AM BST By Balazs Koranyi LONDON (Reuters) - Shipping magnate John "Big Wolf" Fredriksen has quietly bought a dozen new, fuel…

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Groupthink

In the late nineteen-forties, Alex Osborn, a partner in the advertising agency B.B.D.O., decided to write a book in which he shared his creative secrets. At the time, B.B.D.O. was widely regarded as…

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Kristopher Schau: Rettsnotater uke 1.

Tretopper i regjeringskvartalet. Foto: Ellen Lande Gossner. «Hvordan er det?» spør folk. Det ene de spør om er hvordan det er å være til stede i en så stor…

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The Top of My Todo List

April 2012A palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the biggest regrets of the dying. Her list seems plausible. I could see myself—can see myself—making at least 4 of…

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TWG's Ritzy Tea

As Manoj Murjani tells it, a summer evening stroll in Paris in 2004 took him to a new conception of tea and to a new luxury brand for the world.A globetrotter by then living in Singapore, Murjani was…

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Pratesjuk

Pratesjuk Hvorfor er du så stille? Er du sur? Svar, da! Hva er det egentlig som feiler deg? Jeg sitter på jobb og leser i Susan Cains «Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That…

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Hvor var jeg?

Illustrasjon: Ellen Lande Gossner Evnen til stødig å vie den fulle og hele oppmerksomhet til én enkelt ting, er et sikkert tegn på et overlegent geni.Lord Chesterfield Hver morgen…

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How the Tech Parade Passed Sony By

THE lights dimmed. The crowd hushed. The teleprompters flickered. Kazuo Hirai stepped up and flashed a winning smile: it was show time. The scene was oddly upbeat inside the Sony Corporation…

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Kristopher Schau forbereder seg på å rapportere fra 22. juli-rettssaken.

Det kommer til å bli noen forferdelige uker i Oslo tinghus. Ti lange, opprivende og grusomme uker. Siden jeg allerede nå vet at det jeg kommer til å skrive under rettssaken vil bli…

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Just One More Game ...

In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Eastern Europe, just a few months before protesters started pecking away at the Berlin Wall, the Japanese game-making giant Nintendo reached…

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April 2012

His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and…

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Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Crown; 529 pages; $30. Profile; £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk THE rich…

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A fall to cheer

THE past four years have seen the worst economic crisis since the 1930s and the biggest food-price increases since the 1970s. That must surely have swollen the ranks of the poor. Wrong. The best…

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What Went Wrong? » American Scientist

MACROSCOPEExamination of a very popular popular-statistics series reveals avoidable errorsAndrew Gelman, Kaiser FungThe nonfiction publishing phenomenon known as Freakonomics has passed its sixth…

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