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Time magazine unveiled its 12th annual "Time 100 Most Influential People in the World"
issue on Thursday, which once again features figures ranging from
politicians to pop culture icons, from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un
to Kanye West.
Kanye West, Bradley Cooper featured on TIME 100 covers
Five prominent people made the separate covers: Kanye West, Misty
Copeland, Bradley Cooper, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Jorge Ramos.
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Others on the list include comedian Kevin Hart, Iraqi Prime Minister
Haider al-Abadi, Cuban President Raul Castro, Russian President Vladimir
Putin, movie director Christopher Nolan, Saturday Night Live creator
Lorne Michaels, pop star Taylor Swift and astronaut Scott Kelly.
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The list takes into account those who have inspired others, positively
or negatively, and each person on the list has a profile written about
him or her by another notable figure. Entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO
Elon Musk profiles West, Oprah Winfrey writes about producer and
director Lee Daniels, presidential hopeful Rand Paul writes about
billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, basketball Hall of Famer
Kareem Abdul Jabbar does the honors for NBA commissioner Adam Silver,
and legendary actor Jack Nicholson profiles Lorne Michaels.
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President Barack Obama is on the list for the 10th time, the most of
any of the honorees, followed by presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton
making her eighth appearance. The list features 40 women, including
education activist Malala Yousafzai, 17, who is the youngest person on
the list for the third straight year. The oldest of this year's honorees
is 88-year-old Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi.
The Gutenberg printing press - invented in the 1440s by Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith from Mainz in Germany - is widely considered to be one of humanity's defining inventions. Gutenberg figured out how to make large quantities of durable metal type and how to fix that type firmly enough to print hundreds of copies of a page, yet flexibly enough that the type could be reused to print an entirely different page. His famous bibles were objects beautiful enough to rival the calligraphy of the monks. The crisp black Latin script is perfectly composed into two dense blocks of text, occasionally highlighted with a flourish of red ink. Image copyright ISTOCK Actually, you can quibble with Gutenberg's place in history. The movable type press was originally developed in China. Even as Gutenberg was inventing in Germany, Koreans were ditching their entire method of writing to make printing easier, cutting tens of thousands of characters down to only 28. It is also not true
While campaigning in the south, General Mohamadu Buhari theatens voters with death if they don't register for their permanent voters card and vote for him . Watch the video, listen carefully to his words and determine for yourself if you hear the words of a military dictator or a civilian president.
LONDON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs has upped its 12-month yuan/dollar exchange rate forecast to 6.20 yuan from 6.45 previously, predicting that trade relations with the United States would limit China’s ability to weaken its currency. U.S. 100 dollar banknotes and Chinese 100 yuan banknotes are seen in this picture illustration in Beijing, China, January 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Lee/Illustration/File Photo In a note received on Wednesday, the bank said it had also raised its 3-month yuan forecast to 6.30 yuan from 6.35 CNY= earlier, while changing the 6-month forecast to 6.25 from a previous 6.40. Goldman Sachs analysts said in a research note that “the renewed focus on trade relations with the US...(and) the desire to facilitate local currency bond inclusion in international benchmarks” would offset slower Chinese growth and authorities’ uncomfortableness with further yuan appreciation. The yuan is currently trading at 6.28 versus the dollar, having rallied fro
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