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  Introverts in Business: Networking, Leadership, Success on Your Terms
  Topic by Patricia Weber

  Many people equate introvert with anti-social, shy, aloof, even unaccomplished. Partly because of misunderstandings about what introvert and extrovert means but more because of little acknowledgement of the strengths of introverts. Debunking common introvert myths and helping...

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  Canners May Perform a Useful Job, but They're Not Welcome Everywhere
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  In New York City they’re viewed as an entire industry—homeless people who prowl the darkened, silent metropolis searching for cans so they can earn money from recycling them. They’re called canners, and they can earn from $400 to $500 or even more per month. In New York the canners tote large...

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  Indie Amusement Parks: Are the Gates Closing?
  Topic by Derrick Bang

  My childhood was spent within a 10-minute drive of Marineland of the Pacific, a Southern California oceanarium — at the time, the largest in the world — whose August 1954 debut preceded the far splashier arrival of Disneyland not quite a year later, on July 17, 1955. I wasn’t old enough...

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  The Global Luxury Market: Should It Be a Degree?
  Topic by Marta Segal Block

  In May, North Carolina State University's graduate school announced a unique arrangement with SKEMA, a French business school. The two institutions will be the first to offer a one-year graduate studies option in Global Luxury Management. While demand for luxury goods remains strong in the...

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  More Mergers Increasing Number of Gigantic Law Firms
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  Major law firms are merging to become ever bigger, forming international legal leviathans. One news article referred to the trend as establishing legal “behemoths.” For example, another article in the Wall Street Journal last month noted there were three recent deals that created...