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...Well, we don’t have intro accounting yet, and I imagine it’ll be years before we finally get an Ag department.” And more recently I’ve commented, “It’s like a pyramid scheme. They say it’s a good investment, but first you have to give them a lot of money and make sure other people also sign up after you leave.” Yet, despite how cute and creative the responses are, they only serve as a red herring to divert...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: Bridging Harvard | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...Unlike many nations, where pickup games are played in town squares and neighborhood streets, football has never had a wide popular following in China. "Huilongguan Super League is still building the first stage of grassroots football, while in England, grassroots football is the base of the whole football pyramid," says Rowan Simons, a U.K. citizen who runs China's only legally registered amateur football club in China with about 3,500 members. According to FIFA's 2006 "big count," a survey of all its member associations, there were only 382,762 junior players in China. In England, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Beijing Burbs, Chinese Soccer Gets Its Game On | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...happened. The most recent poll from the Blue Chip Economic Indicators newsletter shows that many analysts expect GDP to recover as early as the third quarter but since that the measure was down 6% the last two quarters, such a swift recovery would be like building the Great Pyramid by hand in six months during a raging sand storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy Moves to the Waiting Room | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...designed to bring some middle-class comforts to the masses, the homes are geared for the hundreds of millions of Indians making less than $5,000 a year who are unable to afford decent dwellings. "We have realized that there is an opportunity at the bottom of the pyramid," says Brotin Banerjee, CEO of Tata Housing Development. (Read "India's Top Automaker, Tata Motors, Hits a Rough Patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From India: First Nano's $2,000 Car. Now the $7,800 Nano Home | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

Adams may not have explicitly foretold the fall of Lehman's or the exposure of Bernard Madoff, but here's a prediction from her 2006 book Essential Astrology for Women: "Corporations will crumble and fall ... Anything with a big pyramid structure and massive skyscraper towers is vulnerable." Dumb luck or precognition? Let's look at her current take on politics. Joe Biden's turn as Veep is ill-starred, says Adams, whereas "Hillary Clinton is set to go up and up. Her chart on the day Obama won was more powerful than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Anxious London Flocks to Psychics | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

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