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...iron ore and one of the largest producers of nickel, Vale is also a growing force in copper, manganese, bauxite, precious metals, aluminum, coal, steel and energy. Its stock price has more than doubled in the past year, to nearly $33, and the company's market value is about $160??billion, 16 times what it was in 1997. Douglas B. Silver, an industry veteran and CEO of Colorado-based International Royalty Corp., calls Vale "the most effective giant mining company in the world," not just for its size but also for its skill at operating in difficult emerging markets. Along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil's Behemoth | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...team early on to figure that out. Nike knew runners were logging results by hand. What if this product could do it for them? The result was nikeplus.com "The site puts you and your achievements at the heart of this," says Olander. About 500,000 runners from more than 160??countries have signed on, and some 30 million miles (48 million km) have been uploaded. The site graphs distances for each jog and can tell runners how fast they were going at each point along the way. A map function lets them view popular routes in their neighborhoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool Runnings | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

There remains to this day a place on earth which eye hath not seen. It is 84° north, longitude 160??, 400 miles from the North Pole (90° north, longitude 00°). is variously known as the Ice Pole, or the Inaccessible Pole or the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility. Thither would men go: for one reason, because it is probably the world's most ungetatable place; for another, because it may be the undomesticated capital of a valuable province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ice Pole | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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