Global Game
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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
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Using The Computer to Predict Tech Startup Success
Correlation Ventures trusts only a computer to figure out which tech startups to bet on next. So far it appears to be working
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What Online Porn Taught Dee Agarwal
Nomorerack's Dee Agarwal has built a powerhouse ecommerce site selling deep-discount goods with lessons he learnt in another hustlers' industry—online porn
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Space tourism, on a budget
XCOR proves that you don't have to be a billionaire to break into the space tourism industry. Some clever lease-financing skills will do
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Revolutionising Factory Work, One Part At A Time
A Michigan engineer's radical idea—to build parts one at a time—could overturn a century of factory work and save industry billions of dollars