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Ride a bull for a living, and you can be the richest rag doll on earth. All you have to do is last eight excruciating seconds on an agitated 1,800-lb. animal that would like nothing more than to smash you against the sideboards of the arena, fling you off its back and gore you with its horns. On the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) tour, concussions and broken bones are as common as Wranglers and brass-buckled belts. "Most bull riders are what you call gristleheads," says Mike Lee, 23, who has won $2 million in five years...
...exercise. And yet from the State Department to the White House to the highest reaches of the military command, there is a growing sense that a showdown with Iran--over its suspected quest for nuclear weapons, its threats against Israel and its bid for dominance of the world's richest oil region--may be impossible to avoid. The chief of the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), General John Abizaid, has called a commanders conference for later this month in the Persian Gulf--sessions he holds at least quarterly--and Iran is on the agenda...
With an estimated net worth of $10 billion, Vekselberg is, according to Forbes magazine, the 44th-richest person in the world...
...With an estimated net worth of $10 billion, Vekselberg is, according to Forbes magazine, the 44th-richest person in the world...
...pension fund may have been used to illegally finance various business deals and speculative real estate projects. Among those hit by accusations of bribery or improper loans are Zhu Junyi, the pension fund's supervisor and a member of China's parliament; Zhang Rongkun, one of the nation's richest men; and Qin Yu, former secretary to Chen Liangyu, Shanghai's top Party official. The growing scandal comes as China's President Hu Jintao has intensified his campaign against corruption, instructing government officials and their families to report any property transactions, business holdings and foreign travel to the Party...