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A Spaniard and a South Korean are vying to become the first woman to conquer the world’s 14 highest mountains. In 1986, Italy’s Reinhold Messner became the first person to climb the world’s 14 highest mountain peaks. Now, two women in Europe are battling it out to become the first woman ever to achieve the…
soldiers who took part in the sinking were publicly treated as national heroes in North Korea.
The little guys, depriving them of channels to reach their public, and about protecting the cartel of big media organizations who are threatened by the development of the public internet. And it stinks from the head down.”
The Feeding Frenzy The venture capital valuations for still-have-that-new-car-smell startups like Quora, FourSquare, Blippy are reaching unprecedented levels, and we wanted to find out why. Top VCs Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and David Hornik came by the TechCrunch offices to debate the issue. Four month old Blippy is worth around $38 million. Quora, still in…
plunge Tiger into PR hell all over again.
red shirts attempt to force political change
Submitted by Econophile on 01/22/2010 >>UPDATE 2-‘Avatar’ replaces ‘Titanic’ in record books Q: Is Avatar a metaphor for “capitalism? Q: Is the rape of another planet capitalism? Q:Is the movie left wing Hollywood schlock propaganda? Q: Is the movie marvelous entertainment? Q: Is it also something else? * * * * * Here are some…