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...Leaders International that purports to teach clients like Yahoo! and Accenture how to turn sketchy concepts - the proverbial scribble on the back of an envelope - into blockbuster products and services. Now he has written a nifty little book - only 134 pages - called The Genius Machine: 11 Steps That Turn Raw Ideas into Brilliance (New World Library...
...sets of stats - many of which requite specialized software to access - make data.gov a tough sell to the general public. Vivek Kundra, the federal government's chief information officer and the site's manager, has explained that the contents are rapidly expanding. He encourages web developers to use the raw information to create new, user-friendly web applications. "With your help, Data.gov will continue to grow and change in the weeks, months and years ahead," he advises on the site's homepage...
Karriem Beyah, 47, is out to change all that with Farmers Best Market. He grew up on Chicago's South Side and worked in his godfather's neighborhood grocery store. So it isn't surprising that he embarked on a career chopping raw meat, loading food trucks and, eventually, managing a dairy distributor's operations. As he built his personal savings and a base of industry contacts, he noticed the growth of stores like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods in Chicago and its suburbs. "This should be on the South Side," he recalls thinking. But, he says, when...
Yushchenko has touched a raw nerve among Russian leaders with what they see as attempts to tear apart the two nations, efforts to cement Ukraine's independence - gained in 1991 - and move the country toward the West. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement last week accusing Kiev of trying to drag Ukrainians into "an artificial, contrived confrontation with Russia...
...first indicted for drug-smuggling. Over the next 18 years he built what federal officials described as Mexico's biggest drug-trafficking empire, one that dealt directly with Colombian kingpin Pablo Escobar to move cocaine. Félix Gallardo also began to grow marijuana and opium - the raw ingredient for heroin - on Mexican soil. There were 15 arrest warrants with his name on them in Mexico and others in the United States before Mexican federal agents finally nabbed the capo without firing a shot in 1989. "Félix Gallardo had become the most wanted drug trafficker both at national...