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Top 50 Givers in America
Many of America's ultra-rich continued to give big donations to charity in 2008, despite the worst financial crisis in decades. In the past year, seven philanthropists gave north of $200 million and nine gave more than $100 million to causes ranging from wilderness preservation to fighting malaria. Topping the list are Bill & Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11/1124_biggest_givers/index.htm?technology+slideshows
10 Great Low-Tax Places to Retire
Full-time work is often taxing. Retirement shouldn't be. One low-tax retirement gem is Stafford, Texas which is a Houston suburb. It has no property tax, no income tax and has the lowest sales tax in the Houston area. This is just one of the ten cities making US News list.
http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-places-to-retire/2008/11/25/10-great-low-tax-places-to-retire.html
10 Things Online Retailers Won't Tell You
The real facts about deals, free shipping and more.
http://www.smartmoney.com/Spending/Deals/10-Things-Online-Retailers-Won-t-Tell-You/
Mystery Surrounds Disappearance of Billionaire
Huang Guangyu, one of the richest men in China, goes missing shortly after Beijing police question him about manipulating stock in a company owned by his brother.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Mystery-surrounds-Chinese-tycoons-whereabouts/story.aspx?guid=%7B2316E740%2D4AC1%2D4E24%2DA81A%2DCED2FD8A66D3%7D
A Million Dollar Business: Plastic Wishbones
Annual family squabbles over the turkey bone sparked this entrepreneur's profitable big idea.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/11/smallbusiness/wishing_on_bones.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2008112409
Billionaire Sex Scandals
Sometimes all the money in the world can't keep you out of the tabloids. Earlier this month, Germany's richest woman, and one of its most private, shocked the world when she came forward with a torrid tale of a love affair gone terribly wrong. Susanne Klatten, who owns of 12.5% of BMW, the automaker her late father ran, admitted to having been blackmailed by her lover, Helg Sgarbi. She is just the latest in a long line of scandals that some of the world's wealthiest has had to endure.
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/11/24/billionaire-sex-scandal-biz-billies-cz_sb_1124billiesexscandals.
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