• Feb. 13, 2013: The boards of American and US Airways approve a merger creating the world's biggest airline.

    WSJ: A timeline of events in American Airlines' history

  • The British Library and Microsoft are creating the world's first national email archive.

    NPR: Microsoft, British Library Plan E-Mail Archive

  • He took Columbia public in 1990, acquired the 71-hospital Galen chain in 1993 and months later merged with HCA's 100 facilities, creating the world's biggest hospital chain.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • This year's minnows are Kenya, Scotland and Bangladesh, and, although each is capable of creating the World Cup surprise, it would give the greatest pleasure in Bangladesh.

    ECONOMIST: Meet the minnows

  • Instead of scientists' re-creating the world of dinosaurs as in Jurassic Park, this tale's mad scientist and colleagues invent technology to transport people to other periods of time.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Tim Berners-Lee, who played the greatest role in creating the World Wide Web, is now devising "the semantic web, " a kind of intelligence to rest atop his creation.

    FORBES: Innovators

  • Together, these researchers have found a way to measure the amount of light pollution around using satellite data, thereby creating the world's first atlas of light and darkness.

    ECONOMIST: Going, going, nearly gone

  • The British government trumped him by creating the world's biggest single marine reserve round the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean - all 545, 000 sq km of it.

    BBC: Shortages: Fish on the slide

  • Two Russian oil companies, Yukos and Sibneft, are to merge, knocking Lukoil from the number-one position in Russia and creating the world's third-largest private oil company in production terms.

    ECONOMIST: Ecstatic

  • Why do so many accomplished women simply give up these days and decide to have children on their own, sometimes using anonymous sperm donors, thus creating the world's first purposely fatherless children?

    WSJ: Has the Sexual Revolution Been Good for Women? Mary Eberstadt: No

  • But it should fit cleanly with Bayer's agrochemicals division, creating the world's third-largest herbicides business and allowing it to compete more evenly with biotech crop and agrochemicals giants Monsanto (nyse: MON - news - people ) and Syngenta (nyse: SYT - news - people ).

    FORBES: Bayer And Aventis Get Chummy

  • We cannot hope to influence and create change in the world around us, until we have taken on the hard work of creating change in the world within us.

    FORBES: You Lead By Virtue Of Who You Are

  • And today, I renew my call to Congress to give me the authority to negotiate new trade agreements that will create opportunities for our workers and our businesses in the global economy and will maintain our leadership in creating the kind of world we want the young people who are here in this audience to live in.

    CNN: Bill Clinton Speaks To A Meeting Of Newspaper Editors

  • This nicely links Mr Deutsch's ideas about explanations having infinite reach, which in turn suggests that mankind is only just at the beginning of an almost everlasting journey of creating explanations of the world.

    ECONOMIST: A quantum physicist's long-awaited second book

  • Running a business and running it well are not the same as creating something that changes the world.

    FORBES: Finally, A Billionaire Defends The Billions That She Earned

  • But it is in the area of personal relationships that the online world is creating the most profound change in how people behave, the study found.

    BBC: Woman shopping online

  • According to a 2008 Greenpeace report, the food industry is responsible for creating 30% of the world's total annual carbon emissions.

    CNN: Futuristic farm shop grows food in synthetic veg patch

  • Each embalmer works with individual artistry, he said, with many around the world creating their own mixes of chemicals to achieve the best results in local conditions.

    CNN: What's behind the display of embalmed world leaders?

  • They sap long term confidence in the dollar, which is discouraging job creating investment from around the world.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He invested his winnings in a new business, creating in 2003 the world's first exchange-traded commodity, a gold trust in Australia.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • They have recognized that these complex problems will never be solved unless there are more people creating change in the world.

    FORBES: Getting More People To Become Problem-Solvers This Halloween And Why That Matters

  • America's Department of Agriculture is creating barcodes for the world's fruit flies.

    ECONOMIST: Taxonomy

  • Acquisition continues Disney's strategic focus on creating and monetizing the world's best branded content, innovative technology and global growth to drive long-term shareholder value.

    ENGADGET: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion, plans more Star Wars movies

  • The American-born son of a half-Chinese commoner accidentally inherits a throne close to extinction and revives it, creating one of the world's most powerful and wealthy monarchies, and surely the only one of any significance to have gained in political power in modern times.

    ECONOMIST: Thailand's king and its crisis

  • The spokesman said IBW existed to attract job-creating investment from around the world to Wales and help companies win overseas business.

    BBC: Civil servants' ?750k cards bill

  • "What is so exciting about seeing these films is that they really represent just another conception of cinema, one far more based on the image, less on notions of continuity or creating a real world for the action to take place in, " says Pena.

    CNN: Italy's silent divas shine again

  • Nokia, and WordPress to stay ahead of content consumption and design trends and, in the process, has traveled the world creating his own.

    FORBES: Innovation in Creation

  • The first of these giant carriers was created in 2008 when Delta Air Lines bought Northwest, creating what was then the world's largest airline.

    WSJ: Little overlap in American, US Airways routes

  • It shows how passionate we are as a nation for football, how our society is amongst the most diverse in the world with communities ready to welcome every team, how we already have fantastic stadia, training grounds, transport and hotels which will enable us to stage a festival of football, creating the most commercially successful World Cup ever.

    BBC: David Beckham's 2018 World Cup bid letter of support

  • You leave with "golden passport" in hand, perhaps with the intent of creating a more equitable world where stories like yours are the rule and not the exception.

    CNN: Commentary: Latino in the Ivy League

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