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Stories abound of smart, motivated foreigners eager to live here, start a business and create jobs amid the nation's worst economic recession in decades. But no visa exists specifically for entrepreneurs. Their contributions could be huge: a quarter of American tech companies -- including Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) and Intel (INTL) -- have foreign-born founders. In Silicon Valley, half of all tech company founders hail from outside America, according to a study by Vivek Wadhwa, a Harvard researcher and Duke engineering professor.
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How do you get a job on television if you appear to be one of those people who need to pin their address to their coat so a stranger can help them find their way home? Determined to get to the bottom of it, Stewart conducted a Google search of his own. According to his findings, this "troubled mom" is a graduate of Stanford and a classically trained violinist. With this in mind, Stewart challenged Carlson: "I don't want to have to turn you on tomorrow to see you're actually surprised that the Interior Secretary is in charge of the outside stuff." After showing clips of Carlson talking about Googling the words "ignoramus" and "czar," Stewart was flabbergasted:
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Last year an IBM supercomputer called Roadrunner, based at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, established a new record by operating at more than one petaflop (1,000 trillion calculations a second). Roadrunner is the world’s first “hybrid” supercomputer, having been assembled in part from off-the-shelf equipment, including 12,960 Cell processor chips like those found inside the PS3. It will be used to simulate the behaviour of nuclear weapons. In Britain, BAE Systems, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Williams (a Formula 1 racing team) and others have set up a not-for-profit laboratory based in Bristol called CFMS to evaluate consumer products and components that could reduce the cost of engineering simulations. Jamil Appa of BAE, who is involved in the project, says one aim is to see how easily the internal architecture of video-games consoles can handle the complex algorithms used in simulations.
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Others are even more adamant in their distaste. "Even if you were able to identify specific genes, then what would you do -- inject them into people who lack them?" asks Donald F. Kuratko, executive director of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Indiana University. The very idea, Kuratko says, is reminiscent of the Nazis' World War II eugenics program. "If entrepreneurship is the path to economic development, to the American dream and out of recession, I think it's dangerous to say it's hereditary," Neck says.
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Automakers were hindered by earthquakes and floods in 2011, but as December waned they were still on pace to sell 12.7 million vehicles in the U.S., up 9.5 percent from 2010. 2011 IN REVIEW New Cars Search Even as 2011 was a year of stable prices and steady sales in Manhattan real estate, it may go down in history as a banner year for co-op and condo board vetoes.
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