Cruyff, a Dutch Great, Helped Transform Spanish Game – NYTimes.com

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Johan Cruyff, center, eluded the tackle of West Germany’s Uli Hoeness in the 1974 World Cup final. The Netherlands lost the final to the host nation in ’74 and ’78.

By JEFFREY MARCUS

Published: July 10, 2010

JOHANNESBURG — Catalonia did not play in the World Cup here. It has never participated in the tournament and, because it is not a recognized member of FIFA, it quite possibly never will.

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Top 10 Web Hosting — Best Web Hosts 2010

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Q and A – Web Design for Beginners

By J. D. BIERSDORFER

Published: July 7, 2010

Q. Is there any inexpensive Web design software that works on Mac and Windows and would be easy enough to learn for people maintaining a simple nonprofit site?

No Easy Answers in the Copyright Debate

By DAVID POGUE

Published: July 8, 2010

You’d think it’d be pretty easy to live within the copyright laws, or at least to understand them: If you want something of value, you pay for it.

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By Amy Van Deusen, Women's Health 1. FACT/FICTON: Cardio burns more calories than strength training. Fiction. Contrary to long-held belief, strength training is—as new studies have shown—superior to steady-state cardio in caloric burn. In one University of Southern Maine study, participants blasted as many calories doing 30 minutes of weight training as they did running at a six-minute-per-mile pace for the same amount of time. Unless you're Lolo … Read More

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4 Lessons from Billionaire College Entrepreneurs

There are more than enough college business success stories to go around – and I’m not talking about that dude who lived next to you in your dorm and made enough money for books by selling home-made Che Guevara t-shirts. I’m talking about the businesses that started in college and became billion-dollar companies. There’s something to learn from the Zuckerbergs, Dells and Gateses of the world. Here are four of those lessons.

Companies brace for end of cheap made-in-China era.

Elaine Kurtenbach, AP Business Writer, On Thursday July 8, 2010, 11:09 pm EDT

• Companies:

  • Apple Inc.

FILE – In this file photo taken May 25, 2010, a dozen labor activists throw paper money in front of paper figures representing Chinese employees of Foxconn Technology Group, who recently died in China, outside the Foxconn office in Hong Kong. Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China the world’s factory floor. (AP/Kin Cheung, file)

SHANGHAI (AP) — Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China the world’s factory floor.

A series of strikes over the past two months have been a rude wakeup call for the many foreign companies that depend on China’s low costs to compete overseas, from makers of Christmas trees to manufacturers of gadgets like the iPad.

10 Brands that may disappear in 2011

by Douglas A. McIntyre
Thursday, July 8, 2010

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24/7 Wall St. has created a new list of brands that may disappear, which includes Readers Digest, Kia Motors, Dollar Thrifty (NYSE: DTG – News), Zale (NYSE: ZLC –News), Blockbuster (BLOKA.PK – News), T-Mobile, BP Plc (NYSE: BP – News),RadioShack (NYSE: RSH – News), Merrill Lynch and Moody’s (NYSE: MCO – News).

24/7 Wall St. regularly compiles a report of brands that are likely to disappear in the near-term. Last April, and again in December, we published our findings. Usually, it would take a full year before such a list could be compiled again. However, the current economic climate has accelerated this process and a majority of the brands on the first two lists are either gone, have been acquired, or have filed for bankruptcy.

Mansions in the Middle of Nowhere

Ultra-high-end homes are on the market for tens of millions in Door County, Wis., and other unexpected spots. What are they doing there?

Homes that cost $10 million or more are expected to boast certain luxuries, and the gated compound called the Brentwood has all the amenities a trophy home should: a three-tiered screening room, billiards hall equipped with wet bar, master bathroom with a fireside Jacuzzi and 10-spigot shower, guest homes, lushly wooded surroundings, tennis court and boat dock.