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CULTURE   |  1 comment

Well Worth It?

Buckingham Palace released their annual report estimating that the royal family costs each person in Britain 60p per year. An expense debated by the British people every year. The annual justification is that the royal family ...READ»

60 Seconds With Caroll Spinney

The man in the giant canary suit on Sesame Street talks about staying fresh, fighting with Elmo, and making football players cry.READ»

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Buckingham Palace Worst of London's "Dirty Dozen" Energy-Wasting Buildings

Britain's Prince Charles may be a climate change champion, but his mother's house is an environmental nightmare according to a team of surveyors from renewable energy firm Navitron. Buckingham Palace came in dead last in the ...READ»

Using Effective Hand Gestures In Public Speaking

Your hand gestures and your body language help enable an audience to better understand your meaning.READ»

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Leading Through SARS

First came the rumor: A killer virus was sweeping through Hong Kong. Panic soon followed. Marjorie Yang, CEO of textiles conglomerate the Esquel Group, faced her toughest test: to manage a global organization from ground zero of SARS.READ»

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Hollywood's Rogue Mogul: How Terminator Director McG Is Blowing Up the Movie Business

How McG (yes, that's his name -- he directed the new Terminator movie) evolved from bubblegum auteur into a tinseltown killing machine.READ»

The Wizard, King, and Hobbit of Business

The history of IBM unfolds into an epic trilogy about its three CEOs--the determined father, reluctant son, and enterprising stranger.READ»

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Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»