Global Game
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What Gave Zippo Its Best Year Ever
Americans don't smoke much anymore, but that hasn't stopped the iconic cigarette lighter maker from having its best year ever
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America's Car Capital Will Soon Be… Mexico
More bad news for Detroit. Wise free trade policies south of the border have quickly created the global auto industry's factory floor. Washington, are you listening?
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The Man Who Knows Too Much
CloudFlare makes itself a juicy target by standing in the way of attacks on popular (and unsavoury) websites
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America's 100 Top Colleges
The most outstanding educational institutions in the country
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Cornell's most daring step: Hoping to find Zuckerberg on new campus
Ranked by Forbes as America's fourth-most entrepreneurial college, Cornell is building a $2 billion campus in New York City, with a singular goal in mind: Be the Stanford of the east
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America's tuition pricing mess
Meet the real gatekeepers of higher education, an unseen army of data-crunching salesmen who dazzle college administrators and perpetuate the arms race that sends tuition prices ever higher
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Born with a silver spoon: America's richest dynasties eye more wealth
Our definitive list of the richest families in the US
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Blowing away a $9 billion business in one stroke
It took the Stroh family over a century to build the largest private beer fortune in America. And it took just a few bad decisions to lose the entire thing
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Dursts and their eventful journey to the World Trade Center
The tallest, most meaningful building of this American century, the new World Trade Center, is about to open. Risks abound for everyone involved, except the billionaire Durst family, who initially opposed the tower—and now sit on a sure thing
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Capital preservation key behind rising fortune of the Mellons
Most of America's Gilded Age fortunes have dissipated over time. Yet, two centuries after Thomas Mellon arrived in America, his family, worth $12 billion, has never been richer. How did they do it?
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Dealing with Twitter's dirtiest stuff for six years
Del Harvey wades through the darkest content on Twitter to decide what's legitimate free expression and what's abuse that gets the axe