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Wendy Kopp The founder and CEO of Teach for America is a past TIME 100 honoree Teach for America alum Tom Torkelson is proving that children from low-income communities can achieve. His Idea Academy and College Preparatory was ranked the 19th best high school and sixth best charter school in the country. All 100% of Tom's high school graduates have gone to college...
Richard Branson The media mogul and entrepreneur is the CEO of Virgin Group and a past TIME 100 honoree James Lovelock developed an instrument that helped decipher the role of chlorofluorocarbons in the depletion of the ozone layer. His Gaia theory of how our planet works has real applicability in the battle for our survival in a rapidly changing climate...
...Times article, former HMC CEO Meyer—who later left the company with 30 employees and a $500 million initial investment from the University to start his own hedge fund—said none of the relationships were deceptive and that he had an “outside legal opinion [on netting], which he declined to share.” But the story cited two former high-ranking IRS officials who disputed Meyer’s interpretation of netting, as well as concerns from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers that caused one firm to report their fees in full instead...
...term has seen the admission of both an affair with a friend's wife and an alcohol abuse problem, will face stiff competition in his quest for the governor's mansion. Likely opponents for the Democratic nomination include state attorney general Jerry Brown (also a former governor), former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. But Newsom has shattered expectations before, particularly those predicting he would be a centrist mayor disloyal to San Francisco's liberal tradition. (See TIME's White House Photo Blog...
...other tech executives visiting Baghdad, the merging of cell technology and the Internet looks like a potential leapfrog move in telecommunications for the country, much in the way cellphone networks lessen the need for traditional landline infrastructure. "We feel that there are some real opportunities here," said Jason Liebman, CEO and founder of Howcast, a website that offers how-to videos. (See the top 10 celebrity twitter feeds...