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Business Insider
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China's premier auto show opens amid growth slowdown Shanghai (AFP) - Global car makers show off hundreds of vehicles in China's commercial hub Shanghai on Monday, as the world's biggest auto market continues to attract despite a sharp deceleration in sales growth.On the sidelines of China's premier auto show, foreign car makers admitted an economic slowdown in the world's second largest economy had taken its toll, but said the market was simply too
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Business Insider
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Jon Stewart explains why he's leaving 'the most perfect job in the world' The Guardian's Hadley Freeman has a great feature on outgoing "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who finally explains why he quit the show that made him one of the most respected news broadcasters in the world. Although he calls hosting Comedy Central's late night satirical news show "the most perfect job in the world," Stewart told Freeman that he has become less and less satisfie
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BBC News - World
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Newcastle United 1-3 Tottenham Hotspur Harry Kane's 30th goal of the season helps Tottenham's Europa League qualification chances as they win at Newcastle.
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Psychology Today
Perfectionism Ain't All It's Cracked Up To Be Through taking my yoga classes (almost) every Saturday morning, I am learning that yoga is one activity at which I will never achieve perfection. This realization is good for me as much of my life has been spent in the pursuit of this fruitless goal. The anorexia, the ultimate body, being the best at my job; each time I attempted to achieve perfection the world crashed.
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs
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10 Notorious Tax Cheats: Girls Gone Wild Founder Joe Francis Girls Gone Wild Founder Joe Francis has faced numerous legal battles, including tax evasion, but has had often battled back from serious repercussions.
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs
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10 Notorious Tax Cheats
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Business Insider
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China's Xi heads to Islamabad to unveil $46 billion investment Islamabad (AFP) - Chinese President Xi Jinping heads to Islamabad Monday for a rare visit to unveil a $46 billion investment plan that Pakistan hopes will end its chronic energy crisis and "transform" the country into a regional economic hub.With the plan, known as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Beijing hopes to ramp up investments in Pakistan as part of its ambitions to ex
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Business Insider
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No, you can't plug the black hole in your spending plans with a tax avoidance clampdown As the May 7 General Election approaches, mainstream political parties are going to place an emphasis on "aggressive tax avoidance," including publicising how much money they plan to raise through stricter policies.  But it's a fiction: They simply have no idea how much money a clampdown on tax avoidance might raise. It's just a handy line in the budget, which can grow or shrink dependin
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Business Insider
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Don Draper is a 'very weak man' says 'Mad Men' creator Paris (AFP) - Don Draper, the central and serially seductive character of the hit TV show "Mad Men", is actually a "very weak man", his creator told a Paris audience on Sunday."Shame is his lifeblood," Matthew Weiner said of his intriguing main character, who is the engine of his influential and stylish series about an ad man of the 1950s and 1960s that has won multip
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Business Insider
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What elite hackers do upon seeing an iMac in their fancy hotel room When you're staying in the same fancy hotel as some of the best offensive hackers in the world, watch the desktop computer before it watches you. The Fountainebleau hotel in Miami Beach hosted the deeply technical and offensive-minded Infiltrate conference from April 15 - 17, and each room offered an iMac. The 280 or so attendees — including cyber contractors working for governments and penetrati
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Reuters
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Greece's Varoufakis warns of Grexit contagion MADRID (Reuters) - Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that if Greece were to leave the euro zone, there would be an inevitable contagion effect.
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WIRED
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Doctor Doom Shows Up in Great New Fantastic Four Trailer The new trailer for Fantastic Four finally gives us some details about the interactions of its titular characters—and a glimpse of Doctor Doom. The post Doctor Doom Shows Up in Great New Fantastic Four Trailer appeared first on WIRED.
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Lifehacker
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The Fictionary Adds Book-Specific Dictionaries to Ebooks A lot of books have their own very specific type of word usage. Whether it’s the Song of Ice and Fire series or Catcher in the Rye, a standard dictionary isn’t always enough. The Fictionary fills in those gaps. A Fictionary is essentially a book-specific dictionary that integrates into your ereader. So, when you select a word to look up a definition, it brings up a definition based on the book as
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Fast Company
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No More Expiration Dates: MIT Is Developing Sensors To Detect When Food Is Going Bad Forget dubious dates on containers. These sensors could tell when food is starting to rot and reduce food waste.One reason the U.S. wastes 40% of all the food it harvests is that we don't have a good handle on the status of that food. As consumers, we rely largely on best before and use by dates that are notoriously conservative, and often flat-out wrong. Actual food decays at variable rates that
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Fast Company
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How Ben Burtt Designed The Sounds Of Star Wars In this eminently watchable series of interviews, the Oscar winner explains how he created the sounds of R2-D2, lightsabers, and Chewbacca.Star Wars is lauded for its visual effects, but the films' sound design is just as good if not better. What would a light saber be without its ominous hum in the air? How scary would Darth Vader really be without his strange, mechanical breath?Read Full Story
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Small Business Trends
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Marijuana Businesses Offer Opportunities, But Also Risks In emerging marijuana businesses both the opportunities and the risks are, pardon the pun, high. The same could be said for the industry’s startup potential. And even though traditional banks are not getting behind the industry just yet, there are investors in the marijuana industry. But even if you decide to take on a backer in your marijuana-related business, it doesn’t diminish the myriad risk
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BBC News - World
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Poland fury at FBI Holocaust comment Poland summons the US ambassador and demands an apology over comments on the Holocaust by FBI director James Comey.
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BBC News - World
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Eight killed at Brazil football club Eight men are shot dead at a football fan club in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in what police believe may be a drug related attack.
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs
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Email Marketing Gets New Persona With AI It gets this conversation going by presenting the outbound message as written by an actual human. (Spoiler alert: It's not).
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Hack a Day
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Hackaday Links: April 19, 2015 Bang & Olufsen have made some pretty amazing equipment for a long, long time. That last part can become a problem. [Oliver] found the electrolytic caps on his Beomaster 2400 were causing problems. He completely recapped the unit, all the electrolytics anyway, and the pictures of the process are nothing short of eye-candy. The closure of the Bacman forums marks the end of an era. For years this
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Lifehacker
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See the World's Second Most Spoken Languages with This Interactive Map If you plan on traveling internationally, you might be surprised to see what countries have for their second language. This interactive map makes it easy to explore the whole world and see how many places might let you get by with just English.The map below, from Olivet Nazarene University, uses data from the CIA world factbook to list the second most spoken languages in every country on every con
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BBC News - World
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Item Club predicts UK growth of 2.8% Low inflation and stronger eurozone growth should help the UK economy expand 2.8% this year despite political uncertainty, says an EY Item Club report.
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Psychology Today
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Ivan Denisovich vs Ants Alexandr Solzhenitsyn admitted that Russians were occasionally like insects. But he didn't like it.
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs
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Death By Sea In Lampedusa: Trying To Ease The Toll With Patrolling Drones So many lives to save, so little resources. Around 700 people are believed to have drowned last night after a large boat capsized off the tiny island of Lampedusa. During the previous weekend, the Italian coastguard had rescued nearly 6,000 migrants that were trying to reach the coast of Sicily, coming from north Africa.
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Business Insider
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Hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones is selling his other waterfront Florida mansion for $14.5 million Legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II just listed his stunning Florida Keys home for $14.5 million, Realtor.com reports.  Earlier this month, the Palm Beach Daily News reported that Tudor Jones purchased Casa Apava, a waterfront estate in Palm Beach, for a $71.2 million. Join the conversation about this story »
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Business Insider
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Tim Tebow is signing with the Eagles Tim Tebow is back in the NFL. The Philadelphia Eagles will sign Tebow to a one-year contract on Monday, according to Fox Sports' Jay Glazer and widespread reports. Tebow has been out of the league and working as an ESPN college football commentator since he got cut by the New England Patriots before the 2013 season. He worked out with Philadelphia in March. That workout was apparently good enough
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Business Insider
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There's a new trailer out for 'Fantastic Four,' and it has us excited about the reboot The new movie trailer releases aren’t done yet, folks. 20th Century Fox released a new full trailer for its “Fantastic Four” reboot Sunday, and we're finally pretty excited for this film. That’s largely because of the cast. You can’t really argue with the casting of Miles Teller who was in the excellent “Whiplash,” and Kate Mara who was a fan favorite on “House of Cards.” Don’t count out Michael B
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Fast Company
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The Recommender: Rick Tetzeli, Ex-Burger Slinger The best things on (and sometimes off) the Internet this week, curated by Fast Company employees. Rick TetzeliPhoto: Celine Grouard for Fast Company Name: Rick Tetzeli Role at Fast Company: Executive editor. I assign and edit stories for the print magazine. Twitter: @tetzeli Titillating Fact: I once worked the takeout window at Jack-in-the-Box in Tucson, Arizona.Read Full Story
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Inc.com
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5 Ways to Help Yourself Get Over a Big Mistake Treating yourself right when you screw up will help you do better next time.
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Inc.com
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Smart Door Locks Allow Access From Afar A host of new products allow you to lock and unlock doors remotely from your smartphone, sometimes from around the globe.
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Inc.com
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A Third of All Billionaires are College Dropouts Contrary to popular belief, a degree in STEM or Finance won't help you make a billion dollars.
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BBC News - World
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Plot to Star Wars spin-off revealed A new Star Wars spinoff movie will tell the story of how the Rebel Alliance stole plans to the infamous Death Star.
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Reuters
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Islamic State shoots and beheads 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya: video CAIRO (Reuters) - A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
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BBC News - World
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SNP to launch election manifesto The SNP is launching its manifesto setting out an "alternative to austerity" and claiming to be a force for UK-wide change.
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BBC News - World
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Cuban endangered crocs return home Sweden sends Cuba the offspring of endangered crocodiles given by Fidel Castro to a Russian cosmonaut in the 1970s.
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BBC News - World
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Post Office 'failure' over shortfalls The Post Office failed to discover the cause of large cash shortfalls at sub-post offices before starting civil and criminal proceedings against sub-postmasters, a report finds.
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BBC News - World
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In pictures: California wildfire A selection of readers' photos of the wildfire that threatened hundreds of homes in Southern California over the weekend.
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Business Insider
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Fans are going to get some awesome posters at the 'Batman V Superman' trailer event Monday Monday night, select fans are in for a treat. Imax theaters around the country will be hosting an event to launch the "Batman V Superman" trailer.  After the trailer leaked online last week, Warner Bros. ended up releasing a version of the trailer in full online Friday night. However, director Zack Snyder promised fans attending Monday's event will see some different footage. They'll als
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Psychology Today
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Lovely Me Amy loses weight by squarely facing her emotional eating patterns and envisions living the life in the body of her choice.
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Psychology Today
Moral Motivation and God's Rewards What humans' moral intuitions suggest about the relative merits of religious versus secular accounts of moral motivation.
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TrendHunter.com
Subway Fitness Stations - Reebok Challenges Korean Commuters to Keep Fit While Waiting for a Train (TrendHunter.com) (TrendHunter.com) Since about 74% of Korean office workers recognize that they could use more exercise, Reebok created the ‘Subway Pump Battle' in order to get people off their seats and onto their feet...
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BBC News - World
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Complaint over Australia terror raid Australian police investigate a complaint of excessive force by one of the suspects detained in an anti-terror operation in Melbourne.
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Psychology Today
Alien Landing in Sindelfingen Imagine a world in which “learning” is easy. Believe anything! Such a world exists. It was recently put on display in Sindelfingen, Germany.
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Psychology Today
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Finding Hope When someone has lost hope, the first step may be to find ways to believe that change is possible. That can be very difficult for someone who is depressed.
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Business Insider
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Almost 4 years after MF Global failed, Jon Corzine is reportedly getting ready for a comeback Jon Corzine is thinking about making a comeback.  According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Corzine, who was formerly chairman of Goldman Sachs and the CEO at hedge fund MF Global before it went bankrupt in 2011, is considering a comeback.  The Journal's Julie Steinberg and Rob Copeland report that Corzine has discussed plans about starting a new fund and that it would be started from hi
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Business Insider
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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay offered a struggling cook a chance during a Reddit AMA Award-winning celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay did his first Reddit Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) on Sunday, offering thoughtful answers on everything from the best meal he’s ever had to his advice for aspiring chefs. The AMA took a serious turn when a struggling chef asked for Ramsay's advice on how to cope with the stressful life of a cook in a high-end kitchen. The chef described his “disaster” of a home-
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Business Insider
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US slams 'brutal' purported massacre of Ethiopian Christians by IS Washington (AFP) - The White House condemned the reported execution of 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya as "brutal mass murder," following a video released by Islamic State militants claiming the killings.The 29-minute video purports to show militants holding two groups of captives, described in text captions as "followers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church."A masked
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Reuters
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Republican Graham says '91 percent' chance he'll run for president WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He is not yet ready to commit himself, but South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday there was a "91 percent" chance he would enter the Republican presidential race.
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WIRED
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Mini’s Working on Augmented Reality Driving Goggles The brand is working on augmented reality goggles, populating the driver's field of vision with helpful information, layered on top of the real world. The post Mini’s Working on Augmented Reality Driving Goggles appeared first on WIRED.
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Business Insider
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Nadal targets further improvement in Barcelona Madrid (AFP) - Rafael Nadal has a return to winning ways on clay in his sights as he targets a ninth title at the Barcelona Open this week.The Spaniard was beaten in straight sets by world number one Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters on Saturday, but insisted he was pleased by his progress after a poor start to the year after a long injury layoff in the second half of la
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Business Insider
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Barcelona keen to show PSG no mercy Barcelona (AFP) - Barcelona defender Dani Alves has warned his side against complacency when they host a Paris Saint-Germain side bolstered by the return of key personnel through suspension to the Camp Nou on Tuesday.Two goals from Luis Suarez took Barca to the brink of a seventh Champions League semi-final in eight seasons as they romped to a 3-1 win in the first-leg of the quarter-final tie in P
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YourStory.com
From funders to founders, 5 Indian investors who’ve started up Entrepreneurship is a trait which is very hard to suppress. There is something exhilarating about the experience that keeps entrepreneurs driven, all the time. And the energy is infectious, affecting all involved in the startup ecosystem. And investors are a key part of this ecosystem. The Indian startup space is in top gear right now and there is a lot of support for entrepreneurs. Opportunities
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YourStory.com
Zaicus sees gold in logistics segment focuses on last mile support With e-commerce booming, the natural next step is for the logistics segment to witness a similar growth spurt. Currently, the sector is abuzz with activity – new and established players are moving into multiple funding rounds, including Grofers and The Porter. Entrepreneurs are racing to build the next big thing so that they can capitalize on the impending growth. Gaurav C. (L) Virendra D. (R) Zai
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YourStory.com
From a street vendor to a multi crore company: How Bhavesh Bhatia turned his blindness into his strength Becoming blind Bhavesh Bhatia was not born blind, but had little vision while growing up. Born with retina muscular deterioration, he always knew that his sight would only get worse with time. But when, at 23, his eyes finally decided to give up on him, no amount of preparation could have predicted the gloom that was to come. He was working as a hotel manager and scrambling to save money for his m
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs
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Success Requires Optimism And Bouncebackability, But If Necessary, You Can Fake It Till You Make It “The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” —Albert Schweitzer All one has to do is Google the word Optimist to locate study after study showing that Optimists do better in most avenues of life than Pessimists. Studies show that Optimists accomplish more, make more money, have happier marriages, and live longer. And is
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs
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The Top 25 Most Attractive Employers For Business Students
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Forbes - Entrepreneurs
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The One Skill No MBA Can Survive Without Imagine bringing electricity to remote parts of Africa via solar panels that people can pay for in tiny increments--say $1--until they own them outright. That is the concept behind Just Solar, conceived by students at HEC Paris, a leading business school.
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