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Winners & Losers

Winners The Governator: Arnold is now the greenest member of the GOP. Lockheed Martin: Old school contractor gets hip with retro spaceships and trips to the moon — all for the bargain price of $8 billion. “The Scream”: Recovered, without too much damage, two years after being ripped off. Fight against cancer: After three decades of research, the world’s first genetically ...

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Winners

Winners

The Governator: Arnold is now the greenest member of the GOP.

Lockheed Martin: Old school contractor gets hip with retro spaceships and trips to the moon — all for the bargain price of $8 billion.

“The Scream”: Recovered, without too much damage, two years after being ripped off.

Fight against cancer: After three decades of research, the world’s first genetically engineered immune system cells cure two men of cancer.

Losers

Condi: No longer the baddest woman on the planet. Was it the piano recital in  Kuala

Lumpur?

Mao: Written out of the history books.

Microsoft: This headline says it all … “Google Chief Joins Apple’s Board.”

Musharraf: Speculation swirls that killing rebel leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti could be the beginning of the end.

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