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...also made comically disturbing objects. The most famous is an old-fashioned steam iron with a row of nails glued down the center, the points turned outwards, titled unreasonably but interestingly Gift...
...declare what should be considered a model specimen of Homo sapiens. However, the greatest contributor to human diversity is not large-scale cultural, environmental, or genetic diversity, but rather the basic differences that makes every brain unique. To load a person up on chemicals or therapies in order to iron out the aspects of his personality that don’t correspond to an arbitrary Platonic ideal of normality stands against the core values of Western civilization. The quirks and eccentricities of individuals give our world a richness that shouldn’t be stamped out in the name...
...crush the Communists, has found himself sidelined by the Americans who no longer find him politically useful. Feeling abandoned and diminished, unsure why this has happened to him, he decides that to prove himself to more powerful nations and win back their respect, he needs to reassert his iron will. But Aburiria’s return to iron-fisted dictatorship is merely the very, very beginning of the story. Myriad storylines continually diverge and intertwine in this sprawling novel, but the work centers primarily on the lives of four couples, each representing a different issue facing modern Africa.Explored...
Already the world's largest producer of iron ore and one of the largest producers of nickel, Vale is also a growing force in copper, manganese, bauxite, precious metals, aluminum, coal, steel and energy. Its stock price has more than doubled in the past year, to nearly $33, and the company's market value is about $160 billion, 16 times what it was in 1997. Douglas B. Silver, an industry veteran and CEO of Colorado-based International Royalty Corp., calls Vale "the most effective giant mining company in the world," not just for its size but also for its skill...
Roger Agnelli, a 48-year-old investment banker, became CEO in 2001. He inherited a company whose historic strength lay deep in the Amazon, in the massive iron-ore deposits of Carajas. Iron ore then accounted for 75% of Vale's revenues, and Agnelli's first move was to consolidate domestically, by selling off peripheral holdings in paper and forestry (Agnelli's family business) and using the proceeds to swallow eight rival firms. This gave the company new reserves and more sway over prices to the domestic steel industry, just before the commodities boom really kicked off in 2003 with...