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...Caliente. Hot. In any tongue, stock in Rosetta Stone, the popular language-learning software company that just went public - yes, IPOs still exist - is blazing. On the evening of April 15, the company was able to price its IPO at $18 per share, above the estimated range of $15-17. It was the first IPO to price above its range in nearly a year. The next day, shares shot up 40%, the best one-day IPO rise in the last year (on April 23, the stock closed at $25.60 per share, 42% above the IPO price...
According to Nutrition Source, four out of five U.S. children and two out of three U.S. adults drink sugar-sweetened beverages each day, with the popular twelve-ounce can of soft drink or juice containing anywhere from ten to twelve teaspoons of refined sugar...
...qualities that could be ascribed to her appearance. It is this dichotomy in particular—notably the seamless transition between initial derision and the audience’s eventual, benevolent embracement of her—that has been the driving force behind Boyle’s recent popularity. It comes as no surprise then that the most willfully nasty among us—cough, cough, “Got Talent” creator Simon Cowell—seem so drawn to the concept of Susan Boyle. Upon any sort of consideration, however, the idea...
...Known for his charm and ease at massive rallies, Zuma has been criticized for pandering to popular prejudices like homophobia; he once boasted that when he was a boy, he would "knock out" gay people...
...Regularly lampooned by the country's most popular syndicated cartoon strip, Da Zuma Code, which depicts him as a ruthless buffoon. In 2007, he filed more than a dozen lawsuits against various media outlets and figures, including cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro, who once depicted Zuma preparing to rape the justice system in the form of a blindfolded woman pinned down by his political allies in the ANC, the Communist Party and the ANC Youth League...