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- I've been fortunate in my life. I've traveled extensively and have had unique opportunities to visit many countries, regions and cultures. These travels have informed my knowledge of people, their culture, food, art and history. Mostly though I have been given perspective.
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"Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?"
Sandy Koufax
Win-Loss Record: 165-87 -----Earned Run Average: 2.76 Strikeouts: 2,396
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III
Turner entered sailing competitions when he was 11, at the Savannah Yacht Club, and competed in Olympic trials in 1964. In 1977, he successfully defended the America's Cup for the United States as skipper of the yacht Courageous. In the 1979 Fastnet race, in a storm that killed participants, he skippered Tenacious to a corrected-time victory. He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated on 4 July 1977 after winning the qualifying to lead the 1977 America's Cup defense and he was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1993.
Stein Eriksen
Eriksen won the gold medal in the Giant Slalom event at the 1952 Winter Olympics, which were held in Oslo, Norway. He also won a silver medal in the slalom race. Eriksen was the first skier from outside the Alps to win an Olympic men's alpine gold medal. He also won three gold medals at the 1954 World Championships in Åre, Sweden, and a bronze medal at the 1950 World Championships in Aspen, Colorado.
Books By Nobel Laureate Professor Paul Krugman
Recommended Reads
- A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein
- Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret
- Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power by Fred Kaplan
- Democracy's Good Name by Michael Mandelbaum
- Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
- The New Paradigm for Financial Markets-The Credit Crisis of 2008 And What It Means by George Soros
- The Post American World by Fareed Zakaria
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris
- The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy by David M. Smick
- Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected
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- International Herald Tribune
- Mark Rosenstein's Sailing Page
- MIT Technology Review
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- New America Foundation
- Political Base
- Polling Report
- Project On Defense Alternatives
- RGE Monitor - Financial Blogs Aggregated
- Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology
- Shadow Government Statistics
- Silicon Alley Insider
- Talk Radio News Service
- The American Presidency Project - Presidential Job Approval Over Time
- The Daily Beast
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