But Escher says that the economic crisis has made the subject a hot topic for current MBAs.

CNN: MBA students pledge to serve the greater good

Anything that inspires readers, from cooking to current events, can be the topic of a new magazine.

ENGADGET: Flipboard launches user-created magazines, partners with Etsy (video)

Current e-petitions vary in their topic but not in the passion expressed by those leading them.

BBC: The tech highs (and lows) of 2012

Japan has been perhaps the most popular equity market topic in the past six months, ever since current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came back with a vengeance, bringing with him promises of unprecedented monetary and fiscal stimulus to get the Japanese market back on its feet.

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The current state of the markets and the global economies were another common topic.

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The table below presents the teams with the ten highest likelihoods of winning the MLS Cup in all nine prior seasons that used some variation of the current format (this is a sorted view of this complete table in my last post on this topic).

FORBES: MLS Knockout Round and MLS Cup Predictions