R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
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Updated: Saturday May 10, 2014 MYT 8:24:48 AM
Celebrate Mother’s Day every day
MOTHER’S Day falls on the second Sunday in May.
For someone who is there for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week with no pay, what can we give our mothers in return?
All mothers throughout the world are awesome and without them many of us would not be where we are today. Read more of this post
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Updated: Saturday May 10, 2014 MYT 9:17:32 PM
Keep an eye on companies where US revenue rules
NEW YORK: US stock investors are finding the value of staying close to home.
Even as the U.S. economy barely grew in early 2014, companies with a domestic orientation have on balance delivered better first-quarter sales and profit growth than their globally oriented peers. Read more of this post
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Updated: Saturday May 10, 2014 MYT 11:04:55 AM
Investors may turn neutral on REITs
THE initial negativity surrounding real estate investment trusts (REITs) may be dissipitating but the market is not expected to have the same buoyancy as in the previous years, says Sunway REIT Management Sdn Bhd CEO Datuk Jeffrey Ng. Read more of this post
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Updated: Saturday May 10, 2014 MYT 10:44:45 AM
So, who calls the shots?
EARLY 1980, a raw and somewhat yokel lad from the backwaters of the East Coast rode his beat-up motorbike to Paramount Gardens in Petaling Jaya in pursuit of a job. Without the faintest clue about what the industry was all about, he knocked on the door of a medium-sized local advertising agency and was elated at the opportunity to meet with the general manager. Read more of this post
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Updated: Friday May 9, 2014 MYT 9:05:37 AM
China’s oil rig move leaves Vietnam, others looking vulnerable
HONG KONG: China’s decision to park its biggest mobile oil rig 120 miles off the Vietnamese coast has exposed how vulnerable Hanoi, and other littoral states of the South China Sea, are to moves by the region’s dominant power to assert its territorial claims.
The Communist neighbors are at loggerheads over the drilling rig in contested waters, each accusing the other of ramming its ships in the area in the worst setback for Sino-Vietnamese ties in years. Read more of this post
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In College, Nurturing Matters
MAY 7, 2014
I was a college freshman at Grambling State University in Louisiana. It was the middle of the night, the day before a personal essay was due for a writing seminar. I had put it off for days. I had nothing — nothing but writer’s block. Read more of this post
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Scientists Add Letters to DNA’s Alphabet, Raising Hope and Fear
By ANDREW POLLACKMAY 7, 2014
Scientists reported Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward altering the fundamental alphabet of life — creating an organism with an expanded artificial genetic code in its DNA. Read more of this post
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For Wearable Computing, Software Must Be King
By NICK BILTON
MAY 7, 2014, 4:25 PM 14 Comments
Over the last few years, we have heard that there will be wearable devices for almost every part of the body, from face to feet. But people have paid little attention to the software that accompanies these gadgets. Read more of this post
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Can the Kochs Hold Back History?
MAY 8, 2014
For a time, the press lord William Randolph Hearst did everything in his vast powers to keep the film “Citizen Kane” from finding an audience. He intimidated theater owners, refused to let ads run in his newspapers, and even pressured studio sycophants to destroy the negative. Read more of this post
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Patient’s Cells Deployed to Attack Aggressive Cancer
By DENISE GRADYMAY 8, 2014
Doctors have taken an important step toward a long-sought goal: harnessing a person’s own immune system to fight cancer.
An article published Thursday in the journal Science describes the treatment of a 43-year-old woman with an advanced and deadly type of cancer that had spread from her bile duct to her liver and lungs, despite chemotherapy. Read more of this post
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The Unlikely Ascent of Jack Ma, Alibaba’s Founder
By NEIL GOUGH and ALEXANDRA STEVENSONMAY 7, 2014
HONG KONG — The first time Jack Ma used the Internet, in 1995, he searched for “beer” and “China” but found no results. Intrigued, he created a basic web page for a Chinese translation service with a friend. Within hours, he received a handful of emails from around the world requesting information.
咬定青山不放松，立根原在破岩中。 千磨万击还坚劲，任尔东西南北风。
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