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Meet the nine richest self-made women
Forbes has released its annual billionaires list, and nestled among the usual suspects were women who have made or helped make their own fortunes, in industries ranging from television to real estate to clothing. These are the nine richest self-made women on Forbes 2013 Billionaires List.
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Four job trends for 2013
With unemployment still high, many Americans are looking to find a job, change careers, or update their skills. Here are four trends for 2013 that can help you make smart career moves.
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Top 10 richest Americans
The 100 richest people in the world gained $241 billion in net worth last year, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. Americans dominated the list, occupying five of the top 10 spots. This countdown of the top 10 wealthiest Americans features a casino mogul, software tycoons, and a lot of Wal-Mart money.
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Gender pay gap: Top 5 best and worst states
The pay gap between men and women has steadily narrowed during the past few decades. Women earned 77 cents for every dollar men earned in 2011, compared with 59 cents in 1963. Here is a look at states with biggest and smallest gender pay gaps today.
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Maria Montessori and 10 famous graduates from her schools
Maria Montessori stands in many ways as the mother of alternative education. The Italian physician and teacher invented a new kind of school, one with self-directed learning, classrooms with mixed age groups, and no grades. Now, on what would have been her 142 birthday, thousands of schools bear her name. These Montessori schools have some very famous alumni, many of which credit the free-flowing classes with teaching them to think differently and allowing them to change the world. Here are 10 of the most prominent.
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Did the son of Equatorial Guinea's leader really try to buy a $380 million yacht called 'Zen?'
Teodorin Obiang, son of the President of Equatorial Guinea, tried to buy the world's second most expensive yacht, according to Global Witness, an anticorruption advocacy group in London.
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Apple app store: Changes roil users
Apple begins charging 30 percent tax at its app store, which has some app publishers angry.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton royal wedding: Do monarchies still matter?
Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal wedding may have tinges of the turreted-castle fairy tale. But from romantic to ruthless, more than 40 modern monarchies, including Prince William's family, still influence global realities for better or worse.
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Mark Zuckerberg joins Jesse Eisenberg on SNL
Mark Zuckerberg and Jesse Eisenberg met for the first time in the studios of Saturday Night Live. So how did the Facebook founder and the actor get along?
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Foreclosures on the rise: Is your city on the Top 10 list?
Foreclosures have been huge in cities that rode the real estate bubble in the West and in Florida. But the fastest rise in foreclosures is taking place primarily in far less frothy metropolitan areas of the Southeast, according to a new report by RealtyTrac. North Carolina alone was home to four of the Top 10 fastest-rising foreclosure metros last year. While their foreclosure rates are still quite low compared with most places, these metros and their plight illustrate how the poor economy is driving the housing crisis now.
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The politics of being really, really rich
A recent article in The Atlantic about the world's super rich makes it clear that it's an interest in humanity binds the poor to the rich.
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Keith Olbermann last show: Has MSNBC killed its golden goose?
Keith Olbermann, last show on Friday, leaves MSNBC after eight years. His sudden exit, midway through his contract, has some saying he's been fired and others pointing to new owner Comcast.
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The Top 10 political quotes of 2010
The “who said what” buzz came in full force this election year through campaign ads, public appearances, and even tweets. But who are the politicians that shocked and zinged the most? Here’s a roundup of the year’s most memorable political quotes.
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Is Facebook down? Not anymore.
Facebook temporarily went dark as Facebook engineers updated the site.
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How the Grinch stole ... property rights?
Economist Art Carden (a guest blogger for CSMEcon at Mises Economics Blog) has penned a new Grinch tale.
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Charity donations: 17 more billionaries sign up to give
Charity donations pledged by the world's wealthiest are picking up as The Giving Pledge attracts new billionaires. So far, 57 have joined the Gates-Buffett effort.
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The anti-economics of 'freedom fondles'
Do TSA techniques ask us to sacrifice personal freedoms in exchange for security, or security theater?
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: What does he want?
The aims of Julian Assange seem to shift with each WikiLeaks release. Is he anticorruption? Antiwar? The inconsistency suggests that anti-secrecy may be his only guiding principle.
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Ex-Sec. of Homeland Security: Use my nude scanners or be sexually assaulted
Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of Homeland Security, has ties to Rapiscan, one of two companies producing the unpopular airport imaging scanners.
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Obama, drubbed at polls, now dropped from top spot in global power ranking
While Forbes magazine still terms President Obama the 'Leader of the Free World,’ the title of most powerful now goes to China's Hu Jintao.
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In Pictures: The many faces of Maria Sharapova
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Doing good by doing well
Entrepreneurship inherently helps everyone by raising the overall economy and providing employment.
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Monday Night Football tackles Cliff Lee vs. Andy Pettitte
The premier TV sports matchup Monday is not the pairing of premier southpaws from the Rangers and Yankees, it's the ALCS against Monday Night Football.
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Judge refuses to dismiss Harry Potter plagiarism suit against J.K. Rowling
A British judge is refusing to dismiss a Harry Potter plagiarism law suit against the famed author. J.K. Rowling is being accused of copying substantial parts of 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire from an obscure 1987 fantasy book.
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White House briefing room without TV cameras: more light, less heat
The White House holds its second nontelevised press briefing in as many days, and reporters note a less confrontational tone.
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Michelle Obama: why she's rated the world's most powerful woman
Forbes magazine ranked Michelle Obama ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and GOP figure Sarah Palin.
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In shift, Kremlin reopens cases of Russian reporters' unsolved murders
The announcement came during the Kremlin's meeting today with the Committee to Protect Journalists. Rights groups have been pressing to address major unsolved murders, such as the slaying of Anna Politkovskaya.
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'Feds radiating Americans'? Mobile X-ray vans hit US streets
As an antiterror measure, the US government has deployed mobile X-ray technology to randomly scan cars and trucks. But the measure is riling privacy proponents.
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Uber rich get richer, everyone else gets poorer, and Democrats surrender the issue
The 400 richest Americans are worth almost $1.4 trillion, while record numbers join the poverty rolls and Democrats punt the tax-cut vote.
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Forbes 400 list: Bill Gates still richest American
Forbes 400: Things are on the up for US billionaires with more than half of them adding to their net worth in a year which once again saw Bill Gates as the richest of them all, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.
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