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...with the goal of appealing to a worldwide audience. Paulina Rubio, Carlos Ponce, RBD (these names probably don’t ring any bells): they all tried it with only limited success. Juanes, who has recorded only in Spanish, has achieved the international acclaim that these Latin American artists strove for. Non-Spanish speakers have enjoyed Juanes’s music—no translation necessary. “La Vida...Es Un Ratico,” his first album in three years, happily proves no different. The album opens with the lively, uplifting lyrics...
...founded Facebook in 2004 with $1,000 in start-up money and dropped out of Harvard his junior year to run the company full-time. He currently maintains 20 percent ownership of the company, giving him a theoretical net worth of $3 billion. After founding Facebook, Zuckerberg strove to maintain the site’s independence, saying he was not looking for investors. “I would just rather be dependent on ourselves,” Zuckerberg told The Crimson in 2005. “Most businesses aren’t like a bunch of kids living...
...founded Facebook in 2004 with $1,000 in start-up money and dropped out of Harvard his junior year to run the company full-time. He currently maintains 20 percent ownership of the company, giving him an estimated net worth of $3 billion. After founding Facebook, Zuckerberg strove to maintain the site’s independence, saying he was not looking for outside investors. “I would just rather be dependent on ourselves,” Zuckerberg told The Crimson in 2005. “Most businesses aren’t like a bunch of kids living...
Meanwhile, Roberts and Breyer churned out the lion's share of the verbiage, writing for and against the court's ruling. Each strove to wrap the case in the lustrous legacy of Brown. "Before Brown," Roberts intoned, "schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin," and now these schools are doing the same. Not true, countered Breyer. Indeed, "to invalidate" those policies "is to threaten the promise of Brown," he warned...
...which generate energy by metabolizing sugar in their mitochondria, cancer cells appeared to fuel themselves exclusively through glycolysis, a less-efficient means of creating energy through the fermentation of sugar in the cytoplasm. Warburg believed that this metabolic switch was the primary cause of cancer, a theory that he strove, unsuccessfully, to establish until his death...