These expert-network services connect money managers with people working in various fields, sometimes facilitating the exchange of insider-information that hedge funds have used to profit.

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The Youth Delegates will also have the opportunity to exchange ideas with Young Professionals of the UNESCO Science Sector specializing in the fields of water, biodiversity, ecology, earth sciences, science education, disaster risk reduction, and science policy.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN BRASILIA

The organization constantly worked at having rising German leaders in various fields come to know their American counterparts via conferences, seminars and long exchange trips.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Born in Chicago, he bought into penny mining stocks and pitched them on the Vancouver Stock Exchange--until prospectors of his Diamond Fields Resources looking for diamonds in Voisey's Bay, Newfoundland happened upon a vast nickel deposit.

FORBES: The Promoter

In the latest of many set-backs for a long-awaited link between Algerian gas fields and North Italy, the European Commission announced plans to demand expanded environmental requirements in exchange for Euro funding.

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