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  • SUV crash survival more likely SUV crash survival more likely

    Passengers in SUVs are now known to be more likely to survive a serious crash. A new study conducted by the University of Buffalo in the US has found the driver of the SUV is as much as 10 times more likely to survive in a head-on collision where a passenger car is involved. While automakers have taken steps to improve safety in normal passenger cars, such as changing bumper designs on ...

  • Famous New York artists bring huge prices Famous New York artists bring huge prices

    Paintings by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat smashed all previous auction records at Christie's in New York during the week. In fact, several works by popular artists brought extraordinary prices. The items made $495 million for their owners at the valuable sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christie's. However, a single Andy Warhol Painting of Marilyn ...

  • Microsoft warns about rise in computer viruses worldwide

    A Microsoft security expert said that computer viruses are on a rise worldwide once again after years of being less popular amongst computer attackers. In a report by Fox news, the security expert Tim Rains said that although viruses were less chosen to attack systems by hackers nowadays as they used other forms of threats, but recently Microsoft security has observed that viruses are on a rise ...

  • SAPVoice Are Machines On The Net Making Humans Obsolete

    . These sensors monitor the environment and send data to the cloud for analysis. Every physical object becomes a tool we can interact with in real time. And machines can communicate with each other to respond with no human intervention at all. This IT inflection point ...

  • 10 things cruise lines won’t tell you

    It's been a tough couple of seasons for the cruise ship industry. First, the Costa Concordia, a 3,800-passenger ship operated by a unit of Carnival Corp., ran aground off the coast of Italy in January 2012. Thirty-two people were killed, while images of the abandoned ship, lying incongruously on its side. beside a picturesque beach town, flashed around the ...


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The Full Monty

There has always been something inherently funny about men stripping before an audience. If you don't believe me, look at how women respond to male strippers -- they hoot and yell and jeer and cheer because it's not really erotic, it's just good nasty fun. Something about the male body and the male persona simply doesn't allow men the same freedom of sensuality and seduction that comes when a woma ... ...

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  • Is Tumblr the new Geocities

    let's say 1999, you'd find that the scenario is exactly the same as it was for Geocities, a company Yahoo acquired for $3.57 billion in stock . The Geocities story can be seen as a usual lens to use when considering a Yahoo/Tumblr merger because it followed a similar blueprint to the story currently developing. Fred Wilson's VC ...

  • How to Hire Great Employees

    Investors say they invest in people as much as they invest in ideas, and when it comes to your company, it is not just top management that can make or break your business. Unpleasant or dissatisfied employees, poorly trained workers, rapid turnover, or a toxic work environment can all predestine your organization to failure. Here are the 5 lessons I learned about hiring from interviewing several ...

  • Why CSR The Benefits Of Corporate Social Responsibility Will Move You To Act

    Recently, I connected with dozens of corporate executives of large and small companies in an effort to understand the benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to the corporation. The question, I learned, is harder to answer than you might expect, principally because most corporate do-gooders approach their social good efforts with more of an eye toward impact on the community than on ...

  • Bernankes advice for college grads

    "During your working lives, you will have to reinvent yourselves many times," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told new graduates at Bard College at Simon's Rock on ...

  • The Winklevoss twins are Bitcoin bulls

    A few months ago, word spread that the twins, Cameron and Tyler, had set up their own investment firm and decided to focus on a curious market niche: ...

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