Another example of this trend is how our ability to capture an ever more detailed picture of the physical world has transformed the energy industry.

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Another, bigger, figure who has come back into this murky picture is Alexander Lebed, the retired general who was briefly Mr Yeltsin's favourite after helping him win the presidency in 1996, but who has since floundered as a provincial governor in Siberia.

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The charitable billionaire, who is unnamed lest you think this is another one of my obvious attempts at search engine optimization like this post, which has a largely irrelevant picture of Jennifer Aniston not being naked, said that he was being taxed at 17% of his taxable income, which is largely capital gains.

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