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• CNN: Top 25 Influential Business Leaders
• Variety.Com
• Answers.Com

CNN: TOP 25 INFLUENTIAL BUSINESS LEADERS

In a broadcast that aired on March 13, CNN recognized the top 25 most influential business leaders from the last 25 years. An article on the site describes those honored and their accomplishments.

Among those listed are Jack "Fitz" Fitzhugh, the innovator whose company produces those flexible magnetic ribbons that adorn one out of three cars in the U.S., as well as Werner P. Latham, whose company was the first to rip off the Lance Armstrong Foundation's Livestrong bracelets.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/28/cnn25.top.business/index.html

VARIETY.COM

If the Biz is your beat, you need to visit Variety. Check out the Web site's People page for Profiles and Players, Exec Shuffle, Tenpercentaries, Births, Hitched and Obituaries.

Click on the free links on the left side of the page, where you can find more obits and take advantage of the archive search, which will find the articles for you for free. However, you will have to subscribe to read them. A free trial subscription is available.

Click Slanguage on the left side of the page to find out what a tenpercentary is. (Ok, it's a talent agency.)

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=people_home

ANSWERS.COM

This Web site claims to provide "the best definitions and explanations for over one million topics." Unlike a search engine that searches the Web for links, the site relies on publishers such as Houghton Mifflin, Columbia University Press, Merriam Webster, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, Inlumen, Investopedia and Who2 for its results. Its "1-Click Answers" tool is available for download.

For our purposes, the People page provides a directory of Artists, Authors, Biographies, Columnists, Musical Artists, Personalities and Scientists. Results will include entries from the publishers listed above, as well as recommended Web sites. I'm not sure of the utility of the links to Dictionary or Encyclopedia searches, since the results appear to be identical.

The information is up to date, though I could not find bios of some of my favorite authors on the site. Oddly, Howard Stern is listed as an "Author." And don't bother to "Search Authors for topic titles containing" your keyword -- weird results will ensue.

http://www.answers.com/main/people.jsp

Pam Patton

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