Starbucks Corp. spends more on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said Starbucks expects to spend about $200 million this year for health care for its 80,000 U.S. employees — more than the total amount it spends on green coffee from Africa, Indonesia and other countries.
Lawrence J. Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation for 25 years earned $706,077,000 in 2001 after exercising 23 million stock options that were granted to him ten years earlier.
Assuming a 40-hour workweek, this is the equivalent of almost $340,000 an hour.
Gaurav Rajav, a 15-year old Virginia high school student, recited 8,784 digits of Pi — the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal — likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world.
He had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a record in the United States and North America. He says, "I'm kind of disappointed, but I guess I did OK."
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