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...last February, the University’s top governing board asked Derek C. Bok to take the reins while the school searched for a new leader. Bok, of course, agreed to take the job—but he refused to take a paycheck from the world’s richest university...
...Mikhail Khodorkovsky Founder and former chairman, Yukos Oil Once one of Russia's richest men, he fell afoul of the Kremlin by taking an independent political stand and lost everything. Yukos has been dismembered, and Khodorkovsky, 43, who is serving an eight-year sentence in a Siberian jail on fraud charges he vigorously disputes, has become a symbol of the political nature of Russian justice. Before being jailed, he spoke to a newspaper about the aspirations of his compatriots: "They need democracy, because these are people who don't want to feel uncomfortable when talking to the police, these...
...many candidates in the running for the top job at the world’s richest university, getting the nod would come with a sizable...
...competing against their former employer by importing cheaper cement from Russia. Their boat got tied up in every port, and after months of harassment, they took their business to Africa. Oligopolistic pricing is so pronounced in some sectors--like telecom, dominated by Carlos Slim, one of the world's richest men--that it is hurting Mexico's competitiveness. "The key to being successful in business in Mexico is to have little competition. I guess everyone in the world wants this, but the problem is that the state cannot foster that if you want to be a successful country," says Adolfo...
...richest countries in the world, the number of babies born too early keeps going up--and with all their medical savvy, doctors can't figure out why. Today nearly 13 out of every 100 births are premature, an increase of 30% over the past 20 years. Part of that rise is due to the advent of modern fertility treatments, which caused a sharp jump in the number of twins, triplets and higher multiples--most of whom are born early. But it turns out that 83% of preemies in the U.S. are singletons whose prematurity can be caused by any number...