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...Handlebar Club of London, according to its website, has one major qualification: “a hirsute appendage of the upper lip, with graspable extremities.” At Harvard, Christopher S. Nabel ’08 possesses such a mustache, but his is not an effort of vanity??it’s one of practicality. Nabel, a member of the Harvard Nordic Ski Team, grew a beard to keep his face warm on the icy trails. “It’s really cool because it insulates your face,” he says. When Nabel?...
Forbes magazine recently released a list of the world’s billionaires—they also publish a list of the richest people in the world and a list of the richest Americans. Given all the overlap one wonders if they’re not pandering to billionaire vanity??and a look at the top of the list is a pretty interesting commentary on the state of the economy. Predictably, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the preternaturally genius investor Warren Buffett occupied the top spots. What is most striking, however, is that five of the ten richest...
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