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...RANK NAME CITIZENSHIP AGE NET WORTH * RESIDENCE 1 William Gates III U.S. 51 56.0 U.S. 2 Carlos Slim Helú Mexico 67 53.1 Mexico 3 Warren Buffett U.S. 76 52.4 U.S. 4 Ingvar Kamprad Sweden 81 33.0 Switzerland 5 Lakshmi Mittal India 56 32.0 Britain...
...expects 110 gigawatt hours (GWh) to be produced through geothermal power nationally by 2010, out of 2.7 million GWh in total. That's a tiny slice, but energy experts believe China has the potential to do much more. "There are geothermal resources in almost every province in China," says Ingvar Fridleifsson, director of the United Nations University Geothermal Training Program in Reykjavík. Geothermal pumps will even be used to heat and cool some of the venues at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing...
...somber ceremony marked a kind of coming-of-age for a country long untouched by political violence. The man who was tapped to launch the new era in Sweden is Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, 51, the mild-mannered politician elected by Parliament three days earlier to succeed Palme. After the new Prime Minister had spent a week in the public eye and held a series of meetings with visiting foreign leaders, the contrast with his predecessor was vivid. While Palme often dazzled his listeners with his rhetorical brilliance, Carlsson's speeches tended to be as wooden as Swedish birch...
IKEA, the Swedish home-furnishings giant, is in expansion mode, especially in the U.S. and Russia. Although he is retired, IKEA's founder, Ingvar Kamprad, 78, regularly visits some of the chain's 204 stores in 33 countries. Last month, he talked with TIME's DODY TSIANTAR in the restaurant of the Elizabeth, N.J., store. Some excerpts...
...early 1940s, most small-town Swedish children were busy with socializing and schoolwork, but not Ingvar Kamprad, who was obsessed with selling matches to his neighbors (the business-savvy child would ride his bicycle from house to house). Success with matches led to other bulk products like fish, pencils and Christmas-tree decorations. Little did Kamprad know that his efforts would grow into a $12.2 billion multinational retail business with more than 150 instantly recognizable blue-and-yellow megastores...