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Harry Markopolos has a way with numbers. It's this innate ability that led him to uncover Bernie Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme almost a decade before market forces ultimately leveraged a confession out of the spectacularly crooked investment fund manager.

In 1999, while working as a portfolio manager at Rampart, a Boston based investment management company, Markopolos had been asked to reverse engineer a fund offered...
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"Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith..

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life."

- Steve Jobs

"You're going to get so sick of me," quipped Olivia Wilde, when a journalist at a recent press conference noted that she was "going to be everywhere in the next couple of weeks." Though it's true we're going to see a lot of Wilde (who took her stage name from a certain Oscar), the likelihood that we'll tire of the actress who is as smart...
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America devotes an inordinate amount of resources to its wars on controlled substances; namely its wars on drugs and raw milk. Yep, you read that right. The prohibition of alcohol may have ended in the US in 1933 with the passage of the Twenty-First Amendment, but its still alive and kicking when it comes to unpasteurized milk.

The retail sale of raw milk for human...
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Despite being grounded by a seemingly paradoxical levity, which comes across in the form of wry humor throughout our interview, Peter Murphy, a leading light in the gothic underworld, has remained an enigma for over three decades.

He first came to prominence with the preeminent goth band Bauhaus - their seminal cut "Bela Lugosi's Dead" being forever imprinted in the minds of those who appreciate...
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