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    • Reflections on China from Seat 9B
      Reflections on China from Seat 9B

      During the past 20 years, the author has watch China move from being a developing country into an industrial superpower

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      • U.K. Business Students Cut Class More Than Most
      • Now You Can Trade Black Sea Wheat
      • Why Eduardo Saverin Has Company in Singapore
      • Special Report: Euro Crisis

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      • The Oddities of the Summer Economy
      • With Unrestricted Incentive
      • Chipotle's Undocumented-Worker Problem Resurges
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      • First Person: Athenians

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    • Customize Your Chocolate Bar With Bacon and Gold
      Customize Your Chocolate Bar With Bacon and Gold

      Money Moves, 5/24: Chocomize Co-Founder Fabian Kaempfer talks with Bloomberg’s Deirdre Bolton about the business of customizing chocolate

    • Companies & Industries

      • Canceled TV Shows Get a Digital Afterlife
      • Oil Plummets as Summer Driving Starts
      • Chipotle's Undocumented-Worker Problem Resurges
      • Mobile Ads Could Have Investors Turning Up Pandora

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      • Reflections on China From Seat 9B
      • The Rise of the Occasionally Daily Newspaper
      • POM's New Ads Stick it to FTC, Quoting Judge Out of Context
      • Remaking J.C. Penney Without Coupons
      • Ferrari's F70, an Eco-Friendly Supercar

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    • Obama's Silencing His Donors' Phones. What's He Hiding?
      Obama's Silencing His Donors' Phones. What's He Hiding?

      The president's campaign has a new rule—no cell phones allowed

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      • Dimon To Testify Before Congress
      • Obama's Bogus War on Bain
      • Twitter, Facebook Join the List of In-Car Distractions
      • Campaign Spending: Obama vs. Romney

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      • The War on Equal Pay for Women
      • Chipotle's Undocumented-Worker Problem Resurges
      • Romney's Experts, Whose Advice He Ignores
      • Do Britons Need Mayors?
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    • "Being a sports agent is less glamorous than it is on paper," says Roy, now with Plyfe, an online gamemaker
      Jelani Roy's Game Change

      A former sports agent finds his calling in a different position: point guard for tech startup Plyfe

    • Technology

      • Colleges Woo Tech Millionaires-in-Waiting
      • Technology's Forgotten Pioneers
      • Canceled TV Shows Get a Digital Afterlife
      • Facebook's IPO Flop Is Decade's Worst

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      • TechShop Creations
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      • The Challenge of Classing Up Go Daddy
      • Twitter, Facebook Join the List of In-Car Distractions
      • 'Likejacking': Spammers Hit Social Media

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    • The company behind Chia Pets, Joseph Enterprises, does not offer a Chia bull
      Chia Seeds, Wall Street's Stimulant of Choice

      Forget Adderall. Traders now pop chia seeds to stay focused and energized

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      • Now You Can Trade Black Sea Wheat
      • U.S. Stock Outflows: a 12-Year Grudge
      • Charlie Rose Talks to Donald Gogel
      • Playing the Facebook Blame Game

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      • Kvetch in May: Why Market Timing Isn't Everything
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      • Geeks on a Plane Search for Startups

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    • The F70 uses HY-KERS technology, developed for Ferrari's racing team, to couple two electric motors and a pack of batteries to a 12-cylinder engine
      Ferrari's F70, an Eco-Friendly Supercar

      The Italian automaker and others are adding hybrid technology to elite cars

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      • David Holz's Leap Motion Wants to Kill the Mouse
      • Honda Develops Hands-Free Scooter
      • Common Sense and Cold Water for a Frustrated Inventor
      • London's Solar Powered Trees

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      • Remaking J.C. Penney Without Coupons
      • Ferrari's F70, an Eco-Friendly Supercar
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  • Lifestyle
    • <p>On May 27, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge will turn 75. A day-long celebration will include a fireworks display (closing the span to cars for a rare hour), exhibitions, and the dedication of a plaque to belatedly honor the bridge's true and unsung designer, Charles Ellis.</p>
      The Golden Gate Bridge Turns 75

      The storied bridge that links San Francisco and Marin County changed the face of California

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      • Star Wars Turns 35
      • Ferrari's F70, an Eco-Friendly Supercar
      • Bob Maron, Watch Dealer to the Stars
      • The 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Stimulus

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      • Do You Have to Invite Your Co-Workers to Your Wedding?
      • 'Mulheres Ricas': The Surreal Housewives of Brazil
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  • Business Schools
    • Jason Kapalka, PopCap Games CEO
      Colleges Woo Tech Millionaires-in-Waiting

      Schools cultivate ties with startups before they're big successes

    • Business Schools

      • MBA Jobs Outlook: Mixed Bag at Best
      • The New GMAT Gets Put to the Test
      • Fifty Most Popular Employers for College Students
      • Special Report: Best Undergraduate B-Schools 2012

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      • U.K. Business Students Cut Class More Than Most
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  • Small Business
    • McClure (wearing red cap) reviews potential investments at a Mexico City session of Geeks on a Plane
      Geeks on a Plane Search for Startups

      Dave McClure's traveling venture capital show scours the world for promising startups

    • Small Business

      • Microphones for the Stars Go Mass Market
      • Pushing Employers to Offer Better Retirement Plans
      • Common Sense and Cold Water for a Frustrated Inventor
      • Monetizing Which Way the Wind Blows

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      • Goldman's Jobs Act
      • Jelani Roy's Game Change
      • IPOs' Job-Boosting Power Is Overblown
      • Startups Hit Cute Mascot Overload
      • China's Next Export: Venture Capital

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    • Slideshows

      • <p>In Segovia, Colombia, nearly 100 shops process the gold that prospectors bring down from the foothills of the Andes Mountains. The cheapest, easiest way for miners to refine gold is to mix it with mercury, aka quicksilver.</p>
        Mercury Madness
      • <p>The first prototype of the Square, a device that turns smartphones and tablets into credit-card readers, came out of TechShop</p>
        TechShop Creations
      • <p>Alex Green is a second-year MBA student at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. At Johnson he has served on the school's Student Council to advance technology and operations initiatives, directed the Johnson on Tap beer appreciation club, and led several other student activities. When he graduates in May, Alex will be joining Apple in Cupertino, Calif.<br><br>In the following slideshow, Alex explains what it's like to be an MBA at<br>Cornell through his eyes.<br></p>
        The MBA Life: Cornell
      • <p>Mark Zuckerberg may have irked investors last week when he showed up to Facebook&#8217;s highly anticipated initial public offering launch wearing a hoodie. But the 28-year-old CEO looked clean-cut and dapper when he and his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, married at a private ceremony just one day after he took his company public. Chan joins the ranks of President Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy as one of the few people in the world who wield enough power to prompt Zuckerberg to wear a suit. </p>
        Five Occasions on Which Mark Zuckerberg Deigned to Wear a Jacket

    • Photo Essays

      • <div><p>Photographer Joseph O. Holmes has an ongoing obsession with the intersection of a person's personal and professional lives: their workspace. For more than five years, he has documented the spaces exactly as he has found them, neither arranged nor styled for the camera. Through "a complex dance of explanation, skepticism, persuasion, and fascination that goes back and forth," he convinces his subjects to allow him to photograph their workspace. "What I end up capturing," he says, "turns out to be the work that was interrupted to answer the door." <em>&#8212; Brent Murray</em></p><p>Andy Cohen's Desk, Bravo TV, Rockefeller Center, New York City</p></div>
        Workspaces
      • <p>The story of cocoa, once used in the Aztec court as currency and first tasted by Europeans centuries ago, has always been rife with conflict. The most recent chapter in the cocoa bean's history is taking place in Ivory Coast, which now provides 40 percent of the world's crop. In the 1980s, migrant workers from across West Africa fueled its production. Then Ivory Coast's economy collapsed and violence over land rights exploded, displacing thousands and culminating in a 10-year civil war. The country now has a new government. Attacks continue, however, and thousands still live in refugee camps. With demand booming worldwide, cocoa production continues apace. <em>&#8212; Brent Murray</em><br><br>Moussadougou (above) is a farming community that has rapidly grown to 30,000 residents over the past few decades, most of them "immigrants" from northern Ivory Coast.</p>
        Cocoa in the Shade of War

    • Charts

      • Campaign Spending: Obama vs. Romney
        Campaign Spending: Obama vs. Romney
      • Greek Exit Could Trigger a Run on European Banks
        Greek Exit Could Trigger a Run on European Banks

    • Videos

      • SpaceX Craft on Track to Dock With Space Station
        SpaceX Craft on Track to Dock With Space Station
      • Apple Design Chief Jonathan Ive Gets Knighted
        Apple Design Chief Jonathan Ive Gets Knighted
      • Treasury Won't Name China a Currency Manipulator
        Treasury Won't Name China a Currency Manipulator
      • Cohen: Anything Can Happen and Usually Does
        Cohen: Anything Can Happen and Usually Does

    The Rise and Fall of Cody's Books

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    Closing for Good

    Courtesy Andy Ross

    Closing for Good

    In April of 2007, business pressures continued to mount and the new owner of Cody's shut down the San Francisco store. A year later, after the rent on the Fourth Street branch increased, Cody's moved to another Berkeley location on Shattuck Avenue. On June 20, 2008, Cody's Books announced it was closing for good.

    Said original founder Pat Cody: "I felt bad about it. But everything has a time and a place. We had a great store and we put our hearts into making it a wonderful bookstore. We did our best and we were appreciated by the community, and that was very nice."

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