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The Fortune 500 list in recent years ranks it under the Information Technology Services industry, when years ago it would have been ranked under Computers, Office Equipment.
FORBES: Thinking Ourselves Forward
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Facebook has grown explosively in recent years, and has about 500 million users globally.
WSJ: Man Claims Ownership of Facebook
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In a recent paper in Ecosystems, Robert Steneck and his colleagues at the University of Maine report that 4, 500 years of archaeological data from village middens along the coast, and also more recent fishing records, suggest that fishing pressures may have pushed the ecosystem of the Gulf of Maine into a new, less-stable state.
ECONOMIST: Lobsters in Maine
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Very large coronal mass ejections are thought to happen every 500 years or so (the most recent was in 1859).
ECONOMIST: Disasters are about people and planning, not nature��s pomp
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The official data on electricity production does not capture the plethora of small power stations those churning out less than 500 kilowatts that have sprung up across China in recent years.
ECONOMIST: Chinese statistics
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Mining companies had filed thousands of claims in recent years, but it is unlikely that any of the 3, 500 mining claims in the area will receive federal permits when the 20-year ban goes into effect.
FORBES: Obama Administration to Ban Uranium Mining at the Grand Canyon
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The Great American Race has been anything but great for Fox in terms of television ratings in recent years. 2012 marked the 4th consecutive year that the Daytona 500 earned Fox Nielsen ratings less than 10 after exceeding that mark in 7 of 8 years between 2001-2008 on either Fox or NBC.
FORBES: Danica's Historic Daytona 500 Pole is Huge for Fox, Stewart-Haas Racing, and GoDaddy.com
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The latter's merger with Bank of Tokyo (No. 12) is just the latest union among several in recent years, which also created Sakura Bank, No. 1 in the previous Financial 500.
CNN: The Asiaweek Financial 500