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Mars Mission Reality Show: Pipe Dream Or Scam?

Dutch company Mars One has been making the rounds with its dreams of putting on a reality TV show to select astronauts for a one-way journey to the Red Planet. But the company is vague on how people will be transported to and live on Mars.

Spain's PM: Fiscal Union + Monetary Union = New Euro Zone

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy proposed on Saturday that the 17 countries in the euro zone create a common fiscal authority, with each surrendering a significant amount of its national sovereignty to send a signal to financial markets about the certainty of their single-currency experiment.
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Bamboozle 2012 Day 1: Mike Posner Kicks Off The Main Stage

By 3:30 P.M. the line to enter the Bamboozle Festival stretched widely across the boardwalk. As the 5 P.M. gate entrance approached, the festival goers grew impatient, waiting for their chance to storm the main stage for Mike Posner's 5:25 performance.
ArcelorMittal Chief Financial Officer Aditya Mittal.

Steelmaker Nucor Buys Skyline For $605 Million

U.S. steelmaker Nucor Corp. (NYSE: NUE) said Friday it will buy Skyline Steel LLC and its subsidiaries from Luxembourg's mining and steel company ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) for $605 million.
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Bamboozle 2012 Lineup: Brett Callaway Of Close Your Eyes Eager To Take The Stage In Asbury Park This Weekend

The weekend that east coast music lovers have been waiting for is finally here. The 2012 Bamboozle festival is kicking off this Friday, May 18 and finishing with a bang on Sunday, May 20. Thousands will storm the beaches of Asbury Park, NJ as over 85 bands dominate the seven stages at the festival. We got a chance to talk with Brett Callaway of Close Your Eyes, who is bound to have hardcore music lovers flocking to their set at 5:30 P.M. Saturday at the Harley-Davidson of Ocean County Saints and...
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Forex: What Happens If Greece Leaves The Euro?

The growing possibilities of an imminent Greek exit from the single currency bloc could drive up the value of safe-haven currencies such as the U.S. dollar and the British pound, while hurting a number of emerging Asian currencies that are sensitive to investors' risk appetite.
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Tomb Raider Release Date Delayed To 2013

British video game publisher Eidos has announced on its community forum that it has decided to hold back the release date of Tomb Raider for an undecided period of time in the first quarter of 2013.
Workers tow a fin whale up a ramp to a processing plant at the Hvalfjordur whaling station, about 70 km north of Reykjavik

Bruno Michel Iksil: White Whale, or Jonah?

Following Thursday's financial earthquake at JPMorgan Chase & Co., fingers are pointing to Bruno Michel Iksil, who recently boasted that he could walk on water -- suggesting the French trader's ego is as outsized as the nemesis in Melville's novel from which his nickname the White Whale originates. Whether or not Iksil's reputation will go from fearsome whale to Jonah after he's blamed for the storm and tossed overboard is not yet known.

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