Approaching energy strategically offers a mother-lode of long-term, well-paying job opportunities.

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At 56, the soft-spoken, mustachioed former money manager is looking for the next mother lode in Nevada--a logical place since the state produces more gold than any other in the U.S. McEwen implies that we're at the start of a classic boom-and-bust cycle but is plunging in anyway.

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"Lie To Me, " the opening track on a three-disc mother lode of rarities Tom Waits calls Orphans, is two minutes and 10 seconds of pure, unfiltered rock 'n' roll bliss.

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China--with 112 million cable subscribers, already the largest cable population in the world and one that's expected to hit 137 million by 2010-- is ESPN's thus far untapped mother lode, according to Ben C.

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In the Big Apple, however, Cintron ended up finding a "mother lode" of pay phones, 15 of them on a seven-block walk up Broadway on New York's Upper West Side.

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This is the mother lode, folks: we're starting off the new year by offering a brand-new iMac with 1TB hard drive, 8GB RAM and Magic Trackpad!

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