Although her first ambition was to be an astronaut, she trained as a lawyer and had only a passing interest in Formula 1.

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TV's interest in Formula One.

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Could electric car ownership actually lead to interest in an electric Formula championship?

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Still, both governments have a common interest in finding some sort of formula to get the government going again.

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In late December 2010, Audits in the Public Interest opened a case file on Formula One and the incentives it was seeking from the State of Texas.

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Yet despite the fact that we are all as familiar with this formula as we are with compound interest, very little of this intellectual water ever reaches our stone dry hearts.

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And People has achieved this without changing its editorial formula of friendly celebrity reporting combined with human-interest stories, film and book reviews, and some political news.

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Image via CrunchBase Predicting the direction of financial markets is an enticing proposition that has attracted the interest of scores of experts, who claim to have the magic formula.

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The Associated Press formula for determining an executive's total compensation calculates salary, bonuses, perquisites, above-market interest that the company pays on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock and stock options awarded during the year.

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