As the party wound down, the Nudists and I left Paul with his Couchsurfers, and heading back to the subway station to take the L train back to Manhattan, chatting about how strange it would be to have strangers constantly around, treating our apartments like free hostels.

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"The idea is to teach people how to live healthy, " he says, bounding out of his L.A. office to get a copy of his 500-page tome, Encyclopedia of Foods, which he published in 2002.

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House and Raymond L. Price have come up with a gem: how to build a great company when the boss isn't always right.

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"We feel like people need to understand how powerful their voice really is, " says BzzAgent founder Dave L. Balter, 32.

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In the meantime, Fina, Swimming Australia, and ASADA all said they would launch investigations into how information about Thorpe's case came to be leaked to the French newspaper L'Equipe, which first broke the story.

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Ron Ashkenas l ooked at Schneider Electric, of Paris, to see how to avoid a problem many companies face as they grow, getting dangerously too big to fail, or at least too complex to succeed.

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For more on portability, see How To Get The Latest Tax Break Without Spending A Bundle On Legal Fees, by Deborah L. Jacobs.

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I'm a bit addicted to the game, which is how I wound up at the Sacred Fools Theater in L.A. on a Saturday night for a "Guitar Hero" competition.

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But to remain efficient and to increase ease of living, it would be excellent to see how open data platforms, new hardware, software, and big data could aid in making L.A. an even better place.

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