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...government has clear goals. It wants the denizens of its Silicon Valley to hatch lucrative inventions that will help break the economy's dependence on the sale of oil and gas. "The appearance of great ideas, like life itself, is still considered a miracle," said the Kremlin's chief ideologist, Vladislav Surkov, who laid out the project in a rare interview with Vedomosti, a Russian business daily, on Feb. 15. "There are, of course, no miracle workers among bureaucrats and businessmen, but together we need to create an environment where miracles are possible." (See how hackers crippled Twitter...
Look at the title of Survivor's 10th-anniversary season, starting this month: "Heroes vs. Villains" - that is, those who played decently vs. those who "just played the game." Plenty of fans were entertained by Richard Hatch, who lied his way to the first-season title (often while buck naked). But a million dollars and one tax-evasion conviction later, do they admire...
...middle are fed up with the partisan gridlock in D.C." Though many of the provisions in the smaller bill are bipartisan - such as one that provided payroll tax breaks to companies with new hires co-authored by New York's Chuck Schumer, the No. 3 Senate Democrat, and Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican - the process by which Reid yanked the bill made for a lot of bitter feelings. "To squander [the Baucus-Grassley bill] is partisan politics trumping everything else," Hatch told ABC News Friday...
...only natural to at least wonder if Vonn is overstating her injury to either give herself a built-in excuse for falling short or set up a heroic tale of overcoming injury that American sports fans will devour. Her public personality doesn't suggest she'd ever hatch that kind of plan. And for her part, Vonn laughs off any suggestion that she's playing some kind of game. "Wow, I honestly have never thought of that," she says. "This is no way trying to give myself an excuse if I don't do well. I wish that this...
...given it a competitive advantage that China cannot easily wrest away. A fully grown dragonfish, which Yap says aspiring Chinese businessmen gravitate to, can fetch up to $20,000 - each. Producing the fish isn't easy; eggs are often held inside a male dragonfish's mouth until they hatch. When they're sold, Yap implants a microchip in its belly and delicately packs it in pre-oxygenated cold water, often to be sent north to China by plane...