There is loss in efficiency--it now takes 34 worker-hours to make a dining room table, up from 25--but Green thinks that price is worth paying.

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As Willem-Alexander was sworn in as king of the Netherlands on Tuesday, the crown sat on a table next to him, along with the other regalia that make up the crown jewels.

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Dresdner RCM didn't make our table--it invests in companies of all sizes--but it has racked up some impressive numbers during its first two and a half years in existence, with a market beating average return of 34.5%.

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Look, the kitchen table I grew up in Claymont, Delaware, no one sat around and was able to make a distinction between, if that existed at the time, between bailing out the banks, TARP, between a funding program that was designed called the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Getting Google to open up its advertising platform, in particular, is likely to make it less profitable and leave more money on the table for its rivals.

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The reaction between hydrogen atoms to make helium has the biggest yield, but subsequent mergers all the way up to iron (number 26 on the periodic table) will release some energy.

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