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...plans to diversify its energy supplies - another objective that looks more urgent after the Russia-Ukraine gas battle in January that left people in some E.U. countries freezing and factories idle. Currently, the E.U. gets more than 40% of its gas imports from just one company: Russia's giant Gazprom. In addition, almost all the gas that comes to Europe from the resource-rich Caspian flows through Gazprom's pipelines. Yet the long-planned Nabucco pipeline - designed to transport Azerbaijani, Turkmen and, maybe one day, Iranian and Iraqi gas to the E.U. through Turkey - is stuck at the planning stage...
When asked how online dating giant eHarmony.com went from one just user to millions of singles seeking love, CEO Gregory L. Waldorf said, “Just sheer hustle.” About 15 people gathered on the fourth floor of Harvard Student Agencies yesterday in an event sponsored by the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum to listen to Waldorf talk about his experience with the match-making start-up. Waldorf joined the company in August 2000 as a founding investor. The main question Waldorf addressed was a central problem facing Internet entrepreneurs. How can online businesses devise a model that...
...solutions. However, as more and more states have a crucial and invested say in these problems, multilateral consensus becomes more difficult to reach. The fact that 20 of the world’s richest economies were able to come to some kind of consensus when there appeared to be giant rifts speaks volumes and provides hope for the future...
...whole thing has a lot of echoes,” said Allison, who is also a Kennedy School professor. “Harvey is universally regarded as a giant in this domain, so each of Harvey’s successors stand on his shoulders...
...fakes was a disgruntled Mormon missionary ... He created and sold titillating documents - including one that purported to show that LDS founder Joseph Smith practiced magic. In [Mark William] Hoffman's most notorious forgery, he presented Smith as a man visited not by an angel but by a giant white salamander...