Total attendance grew, fueled by acquisitions, but industry insiders say Six Flags had problems attracting fresh faces beyond its core group of repeat visitors.

FORBES: Free Fall

Thin, white threads are obtained from the core of fresh aloe leaves and woven into a net or other pattern on a cardboard background.

UNESCO: Culture

The company has been looking past its longtime rival as it talks up fresh efforts to crack the market for everything from ultra-portable handheld computers to consumer electronics (see "Intel Vows To Rise Again") and shifts from reconquering its core markets to finding fresh opportunities.

FORBES: Intel's Edge

The happy outcome: a number of excitingly fresh and yet feasible ideas for the core team to build into their planning cycle.

FORBES: Young CEOs vs. Old CEOs - Who Wins?

The most important factor is that your core branded online destination is kept fresh with new content that effectively represents your brand promise and invites interaction and sharing.

FORBES: Reputation And Brand, Meet Social Media

The new chipset integrates NVIDIA's nForce 680a SLI chipset with AMD's fresh Athlon 64 FX-70 dual-core processors to great effect, with clock speeds hitting 2.6, 2.8 and 3.0GHz for the FX-70, FX-72 and FX-74 processors.

ENGADGET: Here comes Quad FX: AMD's 4x4 platform gets "official"

In November, Japan's core consumer prices index, which excludes fresh food, fell 0.1%.

BBC: Q&A: Bank of Japan's inflation target

According to the latest data, the core consumer prices index, which excludes fresh food, fell 0.1% in November, from a year earlier.

BBC: Japan economy: Latest data underlines weakness

The core rate of consumer-price inflation (excluding fresh foods) turned positive (0.1%) in the 12 months to November.

ECONOMIST: Overview

To keep the Olympics fresh, however, the IOC decided it would have 25 core sports and three spots for new or revived competitions.

WSJ: Wrestling Dropped From Olympics