Whether you like your economics beautiful, like the 2011 Novel Laureates, or messy, like John Maynard Keynes, you don't get far without reliable statistics.

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But if you don't, join John Kerry, John Edwards and the Democrats in making America safer, smarter and stronger again.

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Don't tangle with John Bogle unless you are prepared for a fight.

FORBES: Sidelines

"You can't get a fine if you don't fly the flight, " said John Hansman, director of the International Center for Air Transportation at MIT.

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"It's a dumb penalty, and you don't kill those off, " Rangers coach John Tortorella said.

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Eventually the U.S. will come around, too, since it must replace as much as 50 gigawatts of existing nuclear power by midcentury. (One very large power plant produces a gigawatt.) "Describe to me how it works by 2040 if you don't have new nuclear plants built, " says John Rice, the 48-year-old vice chairman, who started out with Immelt in GE's plastics division.

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"If you look at John's body of work in the steel industry, I don't think there are too many people who have a more impressive record of achievement, " says Michael Michalisin at Deutsche Banc Alex.

FORBES: Iron Wills

"I think we're close to the point where, instead of a dietitian saying, 'Eat less fat, eat more fruits and vegetables, ' they could figure out what foods you do or don't like with a survey or genetic test, " says John Hayes, a professor of food science at Penn State and lead author of a 2010 study showing supertasters' preference for salt.

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"I always talk about the outliers that are out there you just don't know who it's going to be, " Michigan coach John Beilein said.

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