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...most basic bio-digester you've ever seen... the pipe comes out of it and into our engine, and it made electricity. And since the power was made locally, we had no transmission lines, and we had no infrastructure issues. And it created in each village three entrepreneurs. It not only wasn't sapping an economy, it was creating an economy. There was a guy now selling dung. If you annualized his 24-week income, he would have made $360 selling something that would not have had value. There was the guy running the generator. He was making a nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Segway Sage Speaks | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

...after admitting she smoked. Von Schnurbein insists the Commission's decision is not "a green light for employers to discriminate," but Tom Jenkins of the European Trade Union Confederation disagrees. "This opens the possibility for all kinds of discriminations," he says, citing the obese and alcoholics. The Dublin Internet entrepreneur who placed the ad, Philip Tobin, was quoted as saying that smokers "stink." If you eat a pungent lunch, says Jenkins, "you might stink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snubbing Smokers At Work | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...backgrounds.“He did not wear his money on his sleeve,” McPhillips said. Lamont’s campaigners are trumpeting the same theme in response to criticism from Lieberman about Lamont’s wealth keeping him disconnected from the average voter.The cable television entrepreneur released his personal tax returns last month after pressure from Lieberman, showing an adjusted gross income of more than $2.9 million for 2005. His advisers estimate that Lamont and his wife have a combined total wealth of around $200 million, according to The New York Times, about 10 percent...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lamont Edges Lieberman in CT | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...cable television entrepreneur released his tax returns last month after pressure from Lieberman, showing an adjusted gross income of more than $2.8 million for 2005. His advisers estimate that his total wealth is around $200 million, according to The Times, about 10 percent of which comes from his inheritance...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fourth Generation Harvard Grad Lamont Takes On Lieberman | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

When surfer girl Bethany Hamilton was attacked by a shark off the North Shore of Kauai, Hawaii, in 2003, she lost an arm--but not her drive. Now 16 and still home-schooled, Hamilton has blossomed as an entrepreneur, building a miniempire of merchandise, including a perfume called Stoked and an eponymous line of accessories sold at teen favorite Claire's. She is also working on a young-adult fiction series and three advice books. "It's been really exciting," she says. "I'm happy I'll be able to tell my story and inspire other girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Bethany Hamilton | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

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