The number 13 has long been considered unlucky by superstitious people around the globe. How fitting, then, that Bill Gates' reign as the world's richest person ends after his 13th year at the top.

很久以来，人们将13视为一个不吉利的数字，巧合的是，曾连续13年占据全球富豪榜首席的比尔·盖茨，今年也从从世界首富的宝座上滑落下来。

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No wonder that Mr Lazaridis, who has won his country's top innovation award among other accolades, is often called “the Bill Gates of Canada”.

也难怪，这个获得加拿大最高技术革新奖的男人被称作“加拿大的比尔-盖茨”。

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Rounding out the top 10 were actors George Clooney, Bill Nighy, Clint Eastwood and Will Smith as well as painter and filmmaker Andy Warhol。

排在前十位的“型男”还有：演员乔治•克鲁尼、比尔•奈伊、克林特•伊斯特伍德、威尔•史密斯、以及画家兼电影制片人安迪•沃霍尔。

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The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, and the top Republican on the committee, Richard Lugar of Indiana, introduced the bill on the Senate floor.

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Holbrooke urged lawmakers to pass a bill sponsored by Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry of Massachusetts and the top Republican on the panel, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, that triples non-military aid to Pakistan to $1.5 billion a year for five years.

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Housing minister Mark Prisk and DWP benefits minister Lord Freud top the bill at the Communities and Local Government Committee hearing on benefit reform (at 4.10pm).

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Despite the overwhelming vote in favor of the bill in both the House and the Senate, none of the top GOP Hill leaders attended the White House bill signing ceremony on Wednesday.

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In addition, Grassley, the Senate's top Republican tax writer, says the bill would "prop up" a complex tax shelter related to banks' leasing facilities to transit systems and public utilities.

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