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...fallout from his shocking infidelity scandal, Woods will make his highly anticipated return to the sport this week, at the Masters tournament in Augusta, Ga. In an interview with SI.com last month, Sean McManus, president of both CBS Sports and CBS News, called Woods' return to golf "the biggest media event other than the Obama Inauguration in the past 10 or 15 years." A hyperbolic reach from the leader of the network set to broadcast the final two rounds of the Masters this weekend? Sure. Still, the cameras will be glaring, the tabloids screaming, and one of Woods' alleged mistresses...
Among the companies that made significant moves from last year's list, Ford made the biggest jump, from No. 51 to No. 37. "CEO Alan Mulally has been out in public making long-term decisions: not taking bailout money, having a vision," says Fronk. "It's a different story going on at Ford than at some of their competitors." Other big gainers included ExxonMobil, Pepsi, Costco, the Home Depot and Southwest Airlines. Among the companies falling the fastest in the rankings were Bank of America, Verizon, Sony, Target and Time Warner (the parent company of TIME). (See which businesses...
...pulled billions from Swiss banks, and Switzerland has barred Gaddafi and other top Libyans from entering its country. In January, Libya blocked access to YouTube and several websites run by Libyan exiles, and in February it stopped handing out visas to most European citizens. When I visited Libya's biggest gas-export facility in February, the Italian manager was stuck in Rome, with no visa to return to work. To all this, Saif sighs, clearly exasperated. "There is a big gap between ... our mentality and the Western mentality," he says. "I think we are not ready to deal...
Another issue is the agricultural frontier that is constantly encroaching on the Amazon. Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse and the world's biggest exporter or producer of sugar, soy beans, coffee, orange juice, beef and chicken. Thirst for land, produce, and the jobs, development and hard currency they brings are motivating factors behind the bloodshed, says Father Edilberto Senna, an activist priest in the north of Para. "Nothing changes," he says. "Brazil is proud that it was the 12th biggest economy in the world and that it is now the ninth biggest and will soon be the fifth biggest...
Cheung cites physicist Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, as one of his biggest inspirations and likes to say that humans, like dinosaurs, could go extinct—a disaster that space exploration could somehow ameliorate...