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...Talladega Nights, Ferrell and Baron Cohen exchange a long, firm kiss, after which Baron Cohen says, in his faux-French accent, "You taste of America." That's Ferrell's appeal. He's us, and U.S.: a bully and a sweetie, deranged and good-natured, a jerk and a hero. He's the American taste: burgers and fries, supersized...
...automated claims processing for the paper-weighted insurance industry. Under Tullman's eventual leadership, CCC went public and quadrupled sales, to $120 million. Mission accomplished, Tullman in 1994 took over as CEO of Enterprise Systems, which provides management software to hospitals (for, say, scheduling operating rooms). He took that firm public as well and sold it for some $250 million three years later...
Schiff owns Euro Pacific Capital, a smallish firm that specializes in moving clients' money into nondollar assets like foreign stocks and bonds. Over the past couple of years, he has become a regular, hectoring presence on cable-TV business shows--on CNBC they call him "Dr. Doom." Now he has a book out, ominously titled Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse...
...increasingly flowing to green start-ups: $474 million in the first three quarters of 2006 in Silicon Valley alone. That's sparking the interest of everyday investors, who see green technology as--dare they wish it?--the next Internet. Says Ray Lane, a partner at the KPCB venture-capital firm: "If you consider the sheer scale of the problem, I think this is an order of magnitude bigger...
...VIENNA TO ERBIL Austrian Airlines opened Europe's first regular air connection to Iraq (Erbil is the Kurdish capital) in December. Austria's largest energy firm recently began negotiations on oil and gas exploration in Iraq