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One of the reasons many observers believe Latin America has emerged so brilliantly in software services and innovation is because agile development calls on two key elements of the common profile of ...

Marie Curie was a simply astounding woman. She won the Nobel prize two times. The first time she won it in physics, in 1903, and the second time in chemistry, in 1911. But of course, there was much ...