Apple (AAPL) had a stellar 2010, in particular sharking up the PC world with the launch of the iPad, while continuing to see huge demand for the iPhone, and providing impressive new versions of the MacBook Air and Apple TV.

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Although remember that other players have seemed destined for the best ever conversation after a stellar first 10 years before being slowed by injuries (Mantle and Griffey) or in the case of Foxx, a drinking problem.

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If Twitter is to become a stellar source for analytics in the future (it already is for one thriving startup), Google will inevitably see the value in acquiring the firm and do everything it can to buy it as soon as possible.

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To be seen from the earth they would need to put out a billion times more power even than a supernova (a stellar explosion which, in turn, can outshine an entire galaxy of 100 billion stars).

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There were some missteps (the capital gains tax went up by 40%), but in all the Act was a stellar example of bipartisan tax-cutting and progressivity-lessening.

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"From the Ground Up" (Blue Dirt), the debut album by 24-year-old John Fullbright, is a stellar collection of folk and Americana that already has the feel of a classic.

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