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Facebook stock: 6 intriguing investors
Facebook stock will make many people suddenly wealthy when it begins trading this Friday. The company is expected to be valued somewhere around $100 billion, with stock expected to sell anywhere between $34 and $38 per share. Here are six of the more unexpected people set to make a killing with initial public offering of Facebook stock, including a rock star, a graffiti artist, and pair of Mark Zuckerberg’s enemies.
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In Pictures: Famous wedding dresses
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In Pictures: Teen Idol Hair
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In Pictures: Grammy Awards 2011
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Gallery: Celebrities aiding Africa
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The Vote
Gimme shelter! Your Rolling Stones guide to the 'fiscal cliff'Yes, we know the fiscal cliff is not always easy to understand. But help is here. Mick Jagger and the music of Rolling Stones can explain it all – with satisfaction – in nine easy steps. Seriously.
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Long live the Stones: Band celebrates 50 rocking years
With their usual swagger and showmanship, the Rolling Stones played their first show in their US mini-tour Saturday night, which celebrates their 50 years together as a rock band.
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Donald Marron
Workers bear the corporate income tax burdenCorporate income tax moves some capital abroad, which reduces worker productivity, wages and benefits, Marron writes. As a result, some of the corporate income tax burden falls on workers.
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Better than nothing? Bloodsucking parasite named after Bob Marley.
Gnathia marleyi, a tiny crustacean that feeds off the blood of reef-dwelling Caribbean fish, has been named in honor – for lack of a better term – of the Jamaican musician Bob Marley.
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Facebook stock: 6 intriguing investors
Facebook stock will make many people suddenly wealthy when it begins trading this Friday. The company is expected to be valued somewhere around $100 billion, with stock expected to sell anywhere between $34 and $38 per share. Here are six of the more unexpected people set to make a killing with initial public offering of Facebook stock, including a rock star, a graffiti artist, and pair of Mark Zuckerberg’s enemies.
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Decoder Wire
Want to hear Obama sing the blues? Best chance is tonight on PBS.At a recent White House blues concert, which airs on PBS Monday night, President Obama joined the guest artists for a few bars. When did the White House first become a musical venue?
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The Vote
Obama sings the blues with Mick Jagger, B.B. King (+video)President Obama took the microphone Tuesday to sing a few bars of 'Sweet Home Chicago' during a blues concert at the White House. Are Mick Jagger and B.B. King in danger of being upstaged? You decide.
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Vaclav Havel: remembering the Czech president, playwright, and peacenik
Vaclav Havel went from being a playwright to a symbol of the new Czech state and democracy in Eastern Europe. Along the way he became Czech's first democratically elected president, nominee and winner of prestigious peace prizes, and one of the world's preeminent anti-communist revolutionaries.
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11/22/63
Stephen King whisks readers back to 1963 in a piece of time-traveling historical fiction that asks: What if JFK had survived?
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Global News Blog
Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy say that new baby will be private affairCarla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy don't shy away from the limelight, but they seem determined to keep their newborn daughter out of the public eye.
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Mozart's Sister: movie review
'Mozart's Sister' spins a tale about Mozart's talented older sibling that is ingenious and plodding at the same time.
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Chapter & Verse
Mick Jagger: closet conservative?A new 2012 biography of Mick Jagger promises to show a tamer side of rock-and-roll's bad boy.
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Culture Cafe
Mick Jagger, Joss Stone part of new ‘Supergroup’A source says the group has completed recording an album and video and is shopping the material around to various labels.
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In Pictures: Famous wedding dresses
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In Pictures: Teen Idol Hair
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Dr. Dre, Justin Bieber cause buzz at Grammy Awards
Dr. Dre and Justin Bieber had fans and viewers talking about this year's Grammy Awards show. It was the first time Dr. Dre has appeared on live TV in over ten years.
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In Pictures: Grammy Awards 2011
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The Circle Bastiat
What Mick Jagger knows about making money in musicMick knows better than to hope for record sales or worry about illegal downloads, says guest blogger Douglas French. He figured out the music industry decades ago.
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Baby boomers: Officially, you’re now senior citizens
Baby boomers – those born 1946-1964 – represent the largest population growth in US history. What will they do in retirement, and what impact will that have on society and the economy?
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Tea Party Tally
'Dancing with the Stars': Is tea party conspiracy helping Bristol Palin?'Dancing with the Stars' judges are giving Bristol Palin low marks, but mama grizzly's tea party supporters may be keeping her swirling. What hath Election 2010 wrought?
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Green Economics
What do Keith Richards and Greg Mankiw have in common?Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards and Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw share more than you might think.
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Jack White waxes nostalgic in bid to reconnect fans to music
Rock star and entrepreneur Jack White hopes his back-to-the-future approach to producing music will generate more creative, inspired recordings.
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Gallery: Celebrities aiding Africa
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World Cup results: Ghana sends US home with 2 - 1 defeat
World Cup results: No late comebacks this time as the US loses to Ghana 2 - 1.
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Global News Blog
The aggressive tactics of Sea Shepherd Paul WatsonA collision Tuesday with a Japanese whalers destroyed a $2 million high-tech speedboat operated by Paul Watson and his anti-whaling outfit, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. It was probably the costliest collision yet for the group. But Watson has a long roster of mishaps at sea.
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