General Interesting Facts

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• No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
• Blueberry juice boosts memory
• When cats are happy or pleased, they squeeze their eyes shut
• The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees
• Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell
• Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
• The tongue is the only body muscle that is attached from one end only.  (Please don't send me corrections to add the penis; the penis is not a muscle).
• Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss
• Some Chinese believe that swinging the arms cures headaches
• Coffee drinkers have more sex than non-coffee drinkers.  They also enjoy it more.
• The city of Portland in Oregon was named after a coin toss in 1844.  Heads for Portland and tails for Boston. 
• A queen bee lays 1500 eggs a day
• No president of the United States was an only child for his parents
• Pumice is the only rock that floats in water
• The African cicada fly spends 17 years sleeping, then wakes up for two weeks, mates and then die.
• Reno, Nevada has the highest rate of alcoholism in the U.S., Provo, Utah, the lowest.
• 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
• 250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S.
• During good sex, endorphins are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex
• The shrimp's heart is in its head
• According to a Kinsey survey, 75% of men ejaculate within three minutes after penetration
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.  Another one that was proven wrong by Mythbusters.
• Your foot is the same length as your forearm
• In the US, Americans eat about 18 acres of pizza a day
• If you plug your nose you can't hum.
• On average, a woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s heart
• Names in Iceland's phone books are listed alphabetically by first name not by last name
• Cats can hear ultrasound
• The skin of the average woman weighs 3 kilograms, while that of the average man weighs 5 kilograms
• Dutch, on average are the tallest people
• Kissing is healthier than shaking hands
• There are no cemeteries in San Francisco, CA (excluding the federal National Cemetery at Lincoln Way)
• Married men tip better than unmarried men
• India never invaded any country in her history
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• In Scotland, people throw stinking crud like eggs and sauces on their brides.  That was apparently not true, thanks for those who pointed this out.  Scottish throw confetti like many how it is in many countries. In some other countries, they throw rice.
• Natural pearls melt in vinegar
• Licorice (or liquorice) and avocado are among the food that sets the mood for love making
• An olive tree can live up to 1500 years
• The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F"
• Cleopatra married two of her brothers
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
• Buttermilk does not contain any butter
• Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen
• The earth is about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons in weight
• A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.  I was corrected on that by a friend who stated that :  The goldfish has a memory of 3-months instead of 3 seconds.  Also provided: Goldfish "can be trained to memorize mazes for up to one month, and can be trained to press levers for food, even at a specific time of day. The sale of fishbowls (due to their inability to provide sufficient oxygen and the possibility that they may stunt growth) have been banned in some countries"
• There are 86,400 seconds in day
• The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515
• Ants never sleep
• The human brain is 80% water
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.  Was corrected about that, it is actually a Canadian flag.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.  I was corrected about "orange" by a friend:  ((taken from an episode of Stephen Fry's QI show) Blorange - is a place in Wales.  Also: Gorringe - is a common English surname of many, amongst whom there was Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, the guy who brought Cleopatra's Needle to NY Central Park!
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.  She actually had a normal set of 10.  The mistake was caused by a clump of sand on her feet during a photo shoot when she was known as Norma Jeane.
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
• 'Jedi' is an official religion in Australia with over 70,000 followers
• Church of England has apologized to Charles Darwin 200 years after his birth
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will reduce your tears
• Dalmatians are born without spots
• Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right while women’s shirts have the buttons on the left
• Roosters have to extend their necks in order to crow
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room
• Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex
• In 2009 one of eight newly married couples in the US met online
• There are about 540,000 words in the English language and growing
• Gamblers mostly don't see any clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
• If you are right handed, you will tend to chew food on your right side. If you are left handed, you likely to chew food on your left side
• The bedroom is the most common place for sex and the car is second
• Humans and bonobo monkeys (pygmy chimpanzee) are the only species who have face-to-face sex
• Everyday, 15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide
• Hugo Boss designed some of the Nazi SS uniforms
• Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension
• A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly
• Worldwide, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men
• The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day
• Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
• The French tickler was invented by a Tibetan monk
• Studies have proven that it is harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive
• Onions have no flavor, only a smell
• Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles
• One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet
• Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed (paw).
• Polar bears with transparent, fluffy fur actually have black skin
• Some kinds of sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world; most other kinds of sharks give live birth.
• The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away
• The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for plumbers in the US
• The eyes of the chameleon can move independently. It can see in two different directions at the same time
• The total weight of skin for an average adult human is 6 pounds.
• The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours ( ~11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
• Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump
• Cold showers stimulate your sex drive
• Coffee beans aren't beans; they are fruit pits
• Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell
• A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of raw potatoes
• Lima beans contain cyanide
• Fortune cookies were actually invented in America (not China), in 1918, by Charles Jung
•  If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously
• Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances
• Some in Japan bath in coffee grounds that were fermented with pineapple pulp to improve their skin and reduce wrinkles
• Some kinds of frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living
• A snail can sleep for three years
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
• In Korea and other East Asian countries, the age of the person is counted from conception and not physical birth
• Dogs have about 10 vocal sounds; cats have over 100
• The people in Bali only have one of four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut
• There are more pyramids in Peru than in Egypt
• The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit
• The state official motto of Alaska is " North to the Future"
• People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers
• In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies
• Orgies were originally religious events. They were originally offerings to the gods
• 2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover
• It is unknown if odd perfect numbers exist
• A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to itself such as 28: 1+2+4+7+14=28
• Human eye detects 10 million colors
• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king (shah) is dead (mat)."
• Kissing helps prevent tooth decay
• One California law states that sunshine is guaranteed to all people
• Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour
• Your thumb is the same length as your nose
• Butterflies smell with their feet
• Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"
• An egg laden goldfish is called a twit
• In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands
• In Germany, an official approval is needed before a new born is named.
• Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
• Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states
• Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky
• In1770, a bill proposing that women using makeup should be punished for witchcraft was put forward to the British Parliament
• The oldest dog died at the age of 29
• Cats are the most popular pets in the United States
• Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives
• In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house
• San Jose was the original capital of California
• Carl Sagan was a pot smoker
• 5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisons population are held in the US.
• All swans in England are the property of the queen or king
• Women are more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are
• The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.  
• Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God. 
• A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
• The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
• Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.
• 250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S
• You will weigh less if you weigh yourself when the moon is full
• Honeybees never sleep
• Carl Sagan was a pot smoker
• Benjamin Franklin was offended about putting a bald eagle as the national bird because he thought that other people were trying to make fun of him, since he was bald
• 5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisons population are held in the US
• 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
• Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky
• San Jose was the original capital of California
• Most lipstick have fish scales
• In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house
• Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives
• Cats are the most popular pets in the United States
• The oldest dog died at the age of 29
• Tamiflu's main natural ingredient is Chinese star anise
• Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin
• The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.
• Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• The largest potato was grown in Lebanon by Khalil Semhat near Tyre.  The spud was 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)
• Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
• Both men and women can be turned on by the aromas of wine
• The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
• Earthworms have five hearts
• The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
• Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.

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Malaysian Politics

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1. A Developed Malaysia
   The challenge is to ensure that Malaysia is headed towards Montreal and not sliding back to Tijuana. If we do not get to Montreal, we will automatically slide quickly towards Tijuana. Make not mistake about that; standing still is not an option.
2. Malaysia on Trial
   The last time Malaysia's former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim was charged with sodomy, the country's judicial system was on trial. This time around, the stakes are even higher.
3. Where is Negaraku?
   The dream of a Malaysian 'race' in the future is nowhere in sight with the present BN govt.
4. Let Allah ruling stand
   A MUSLIM organisation in the United States has welcomed the Kuala Lumpur High Court ruling allowing the Catholic weekly Herald to call God 'Allah'.
5. The Herald May use the Word Allah
   The High Court of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur has ruled that the Herald is free to use the word 'Allah' in its weekly publication called the Herald. It ruled that the Home Minister's order to ban the use of the word Allah was illegal, null and void.
6. Compulsory voting for Malaysia
   It was revealed by the Election Commission Deputy Chairman that out of 16 million people eligible to vote, only 11 million have been registered to vote. It meant that 5 million eligible voters were not registered.
7. Malaysia an 'Oil Cursed' Country
   The signs of a low-growth economy are all around us. Wages are stagnant and the cost of living is rising. We have not made much progress in becoming a knowledge and services based economy.
8. Who Will Be The Next MCA President?
   MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek and vice-president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai are expected to go for the No. 1 post in the party's coming fresh elections, China Press reported today.
9. BTN - Between true education and indoctrination
   We are not running Hitler Youth camps in Malaysia. We must not even come close to setting up one.
10. Anwar wins against NST
    Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim won his defamation suit against the New Straits Times today.
    
11. PI Balasubramaniam Resurfaces...
    ... Drops a bombshell
12. MCA EGM
    to go ahead despite attempts to derail it.
13. Malaysia Can Help Asia
    lead the recovery of the world economy.
14. Mahathir on Anwar
    To Bankrupt Selangor, Anwar is the right economic adviser.

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The World's Most Powerful People 2009

The 67 heads of state, criminals, financiers and philanthropists who really run the world.

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies." — Napoleon Bonaparte

Power has been called many things. The ultimate aphrodisiac. An absolute corrupter. A mistress. A violin. But its true nature remains elusive. After all, a head of state wields a very different sort of power than a religious figure. Can one really compare the influence of a journalist to that of a terrorist? And is power unexercised power at all?

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In compiling our first ranking of the World's Most Powerful People we wrestled with these questions — and many more — before deciding to define power in four dimensions. First, we asked, does the person have influence over lots of other people? Pope Benedict XVI, ranked 11th on our list, is the spiritual leader of more than a billion souls, or about one-sixth of the world's population, while Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke (No. 8) is the largest private-sector employer in the United States.

Then we assessed the financial resources controlled by these individuals. Are they relatively large compared with their peers'? For heads of state we used GDP, while for CEOs, we looked at a composite ranking of market capitalization, profits, assets and revenues as reflected on our annual ranking of the World's 2000 Largest Companies. In certain instances, like New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller (No. 51), we judged the resources at his disposal compared with others in the industry. For billionaires, like Bill Gates (No. 10), net worth was also a factor.

Next we determined if they are powerful in multiple spheres. There are only 67 slots on our list — one for every 100 million people on the planet — so being powerful in just one area is not enough to guarantee a spot. Our picks project their influence in myriad ways. Take Italy's colorful prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi (No. 12) who is a politician, a media monopolist and owner of soccer powerhouse A.C. Milan, or Oprah Winfrey (No. 45) who can manufacture a best-seller and an American President.

Lastly, we insisted that our choices actively use their power. Ingvar Kamprad, the 83-year-old entrepreneur behind Ikea and the richest man in Europe, was an early candidate for this list, but was excluded because he doesn't exercise his power. On the other hand, Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin (No. 3) scored points because he likes to throw his weight around by jailing oligarchs, invading neighboring countries and periodically cutting off Western Europe's supply of natural gas.

To calculate the final rankings, five Forbes senior editors ranked all of our candidates in each of these four dimensions of power. Those individual rankings were averaged into a composite score, which determined who placed above (or below) whom.

U.S. President Barack Obama emerged, unanimously, as the world's most powerful person, and by a wide margin. But there were a number of surprises. Former President George W. Bush didn't come close to making the final cut, while his predecessor in the Oval Office, Bill Clinton, ranks 31st, ahead of a number of sitting heads of government. Apple's Steve Jobs easily made the list, while Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star governor of California (alone, the world's fifth largest economy) did not.

1. Barack Obama

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How powerful is he? Let's count the ways:

• Presides over world's largest, most innovative, most dynamic economy.
• Commander-in-chief of planet's richest, deadliest military.
• Finger on button of nuclear arsenal containing more than 5,000 warheads.
• Head-of-state of world's sole superpower.
• His Democrats have majorities in both U.S. House and Senate.
• Recently awarded Nobel Peace Prize, apparently for general awesomeness.

2. Hu Jintao

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• Paramount political leader of more people than anyone else on the planet; 1.3 billion Chinese, some 70% in their prime working years of ages 15 to 64 powering world's low-cost workshop, transforming nation.
• Biggest buyer of U.S. debt avoided Chinese meltdown during financial crisis with massive stimulus package to encourage domestic spending.
• "Coming-out party" at 2008 Beijing Olympic Games showcased young, modern, harmonious society; reality often quite different — few political, religious, press freedoms; brutal suppression of Tibet; refusal to acknowledge Taiwanese independence.
• Still, credible estimates have China poised to overtake U.S. as world's largest economy in 25 years — although, crucially, not on a per-capita basis.

3. Vladimir Putin

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• Prime Minister might as well be known as Czar, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russians.
• Vastly more powerful than his handpicked head-of-state, President Dmitry Medvedev.
• Presides over one-ninth of Earth's land area, vast energy and mineral resources.
• Former KGB officer unafraid to wield his power; invading Georgia, cutting off natural gas supplies to Ukraine or Western Europe (again).
• Declared nuclear power has veto on U.N.'s Security Council.
• "I'm deeply convinced that constant change is not for the better."

4. Ben S. Bernanke

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• Former chairman of Princeton's economics department and noted Great Depression scholar now guiding world's largest economy through Great Recession; has overseen massive growth in Fed's balance sheet, from less than $900 billion in liabilities in August 2008 to more than $2.1 trillion today.
• With federal funds rate now effectively 0%, the so-called Bernanke Doctrine calls for using monetary policy to stave off deflation.
• "The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press, that allows it to produce as many dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost."

5. Sergey Brin and Larry Page

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• If knowledge is power, maybe information is too. Brainy duo met in Stanford computer science Ph.D. program, now trying to put all the world's information at your fingertips.
• Known for collecting best and brightest young tech talent at Mountain View, Calif., "Googleplex"; employees encouraged to spend one day a week on personal projects; company often named "Best Place To Work" in America.
• Google guys' combined net worth of $30.6 billion would place them third on the Forbes 400.
• Yet despite professed intentions to "do no evil," Google is blamed in some quarters for decimating traditional publishing, journalism. Brin: "Some say Google is God, others say Google is Satan."

The World's Most Powerful People 2009 6-10

6. Carlos Slim Helú

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• World's third-richest man is dominant economic force in Mexico, personal fortune equivalent to some 2% of Mexican GDP.
• Telecommunications monopolist: His Telemex owns 90% of Mexico's fixed telephone lines; his TelCel has 90% of wireless market.
• Also head of group dedicated to improving Mexico's roads, energy infrastructure, water supply.
• New focus, media: Last fall snapped up 7% stake in the New York Times Co., largest after Sulzberger owner-family.
• "I think it's perverse to believe there shouldn't be strong companies in poor countries."

7. Rupert Murdoch

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• "The man who owns the news" still believes in print, not afraid to use vast media holdings to further personal political views.
• Media empire includes leading British (the Times), Australian (The Australian), American (The Wall Street Journal) newspapers, in addition to tabloids like the New York Post and The Sun (U.K.). Also movies (20th Century Fox), books (HarperCollins), television (Fox, BSkyB), online (MySpace).
• Weak ad-marketing hurting his News Corp.: net loss of $3.4 billion in fiscal 2009, stock off March lows, but still well below 2007 levels, when he made a $5.6 billion gamble on Dow Jones. "Quality journalism isn't cheap."

8. Michael T. Duke

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• Runs world's largest retailer, more country than company: $401 billion in annual sales, 2 million employees, 8,000 stores.
• Wal-Mart alone is China's eighth-largest trading partner.
• Largest private-sector employer in U.S.; favorite target of unions; blamed and praised for backing Obama health care proposals, shifting economic power from manufacturers to retailers, from mom-and-pop to big box.
• "I am competitive by nature and I want to win."

9. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud

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• Absolute ruler of desert kingdom that contains the world's largest crude oil reserves, two holiest sites in Islam.
• State-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco most profitable company on Earth, earns more than $200 billion a year, has reserves of 260 billion barrels or 25% of planet's known supply.
• Ultimate succession unclear: 85-year-old king's official heir is 81-year-old Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.
• In 2006, established committee of senior princes to ensure smooth transition in the event both become incapacitated.

10. William Gates III

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• Richest man in the world dominated, transformed software business.
• More than 85% of world's hundreds of millions of computer users stare at, struggle with, Microsoft products on daily basis.
• Second act: Saving the world. Still Microsoft chairman, but now devotes day-to-day to his Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, the largest charity on Earth with $34 billion endowment. Foundation devoted to reducing hunger, improving education and fighting diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS.

The World's Most Powerful People 2009 11-15

11. Pope Benedict XVI

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• Spiritual leader is highest earthly authority for 1 billion souls, or about one-sixth of planet's population; runs Catholic Church, world's oldest, largest multinational.
• A staunch traditionalist, unbending on reproductive matters, yet conservatism comforting to many.

12. Silvio Berlusconi

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• Prime Minister of Italy also media monopolist: Owns three television networks outright, controls three others through state. Also magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies.
• Beyond politics and publishing, sports: His AC Milan is one of the world's premier soccer teams.
• Colorful private life, bribery allegations, Cabinet member picks have caused him to be depicted as Europe's buffoon. Unfazed: Calls himself "the Jesus Christ of Italian politics."

13. Jeffrey R. Immelt

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• Heads General Electric, world's largest company.
• Financial services account for more than half of revenue, but also has major presence in energy, media, transportation and aviation.
• Company breeding ground for top executive talent; former GE brass have run companies ranging from Boeing to Rubbermaid.
• Company poised to profit from Obama health care plans and clean energy initiatives; one of planet's largest manufacturers of wind turbines. Yes we can: "You can either sit with a hood over your head and pretend things won't change, or you can get ready for it."

14. Warren Buffett

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• Greatest value investor of all time shrewdly profiting from global financial crisis; snapped up stakes in Goldman Sachs, General Electric during darkest days of 2008.
• Opponent of inherited wealth has bequeathed vast majority of $40 billion fortune to buddy Bill Gates and his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
• "Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful."

15. Angela Merkel

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• Most powerful woman on planet.
• As chancellor of Germany, oversees Europe's largest economy and fifth-largest in the world with $2.9 trillion GDP.
• Renowned free-market champion and favorite of big business, favors Euro over waning greenback.
• Green cred: Leading European charge against greenhouse gases.