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The Middle Kingdom is now home to billionaires—up from last year—and is again only second to the U. Not only does China have more billionaires than ever, its richest have bigger fortunes. Zhong, who reportedly dropped out of school at age 12 and once worked as a construction worker and erectile dysfunction pill salesman, founded the beverage firm in Some top 10 mainstays have had a tumultuous year but still ended up richer. Jack Ma, who cofounded e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba, has seen his company come under increasing scrutiny by the Chinese Communist Party, as the government seeks to crack down on big tech. His fintech giant Ant Group, which was planning a record-setting dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong, also saw its IPO pulled by regulators just days ahead of its November 5 debut.

Astronomers may have discovered the smallest and heaviest white dwarf star ever seen, a smoldering ember about the size of our moon but , times more massive than Earth, a new study finds. White dwarfs are usually about the size of Earth and are the cool, dim cores of dead stars that are left behind after average-size stars have exhausted their fuel and shed their outer layers. Although the sun is alone in space without a stellar partner, many stars orbit around each other in pairs. If these binary stars are both less than eight times the mass of the sun, they will both evolve into white dwarfs over time.

Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored. Sign in to see reasons why you may or may not like this based on your games, friends, and curators you follow. Dwarf Fortress contains textual descriptions of violence, and static 2D sprites that may have violent ends. Alcohol consumption is required for a dwarven fortress to run smoothly, as described in text. Dwarves can experience mental anguish, and in extreme cases this can lead to them taking their own lives or the lives of others.

Hardcore heavyweights Greg Hetson and Zander Schloss still supercharge slam-dancers with just an SG, a P bass, modded tube heads, and lots of downstrokes. Any band that hammers along for 43 years should be praised. The Circle Jerks should be honored with a skanking statue in their hometown of Hermosa Beach, California. Hetson has also been a member of another seminal SoCal punk rock band, Bad Religion , from