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• The 2007 Virginia 100: Who are Virginia's richest citizens? Read the annual survey.

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• The annual survey of Virginia's top companies is back:

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No place for dropouts

November 01, 2007 9:58 AM

There’s a constant din in Essel Propack’s Danville factory. Machines the size of small cars gobble up pre-printed plastic sheets bearing colorful labels such as Crest and Banana Boat. Every second, molded tubes for toothpaste or sun block pour out of each machine..

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Virginia’s Super CPAs

November 01, 2007 9:43 AM

The retirement plans of the baby boom generation could affect the supply of certified public accountants.

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Down to the wires

November 01, 2007 9:42 AM

In this age of Internet telephony, Wi-Fi and lightning-fast fiber-optic networks, the old-fashioned copper phone lines laid decades ago by Ma Bell seem like an anachronism. But for some Virginia-based telecoms, the link to homes and businesses provided by those copper wires is important to future growth.

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Got a minute? Get a shot

November 01, 2007 9:39 AM

A Harvard Business School professor coined the phrase disruptive technology. It describes an innovation that unexpectedly replaces an existing technology. In health care, that disruptive technology might be the sudden rise of retail-based clinics, also known as the convenience care outlets of medicine.

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The business of medicine

November 01, 2007 9:38 AM

Dr. D. Christopher Wells had been part of a Roanoke-based private practice of cardiovascular surgeons for more than 18 years when the going got tough. After one member retired and another became ill, the seven-member group was down to five doctors.

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Too many patients, not enough white coats

November 01, 2007 9:36 AM

At 58, Dr. David Ellington isn’t ready for retirement yet. That’s a good thing, because finding a replacement in Lexington for a family physician will be tough.

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Smaller shops reinvent the rules

November 01, 2007 9:34 AM

The Virginia advertising industry does more than create branding campaigns. Some companies are pioneering new interactive ways to engage the target audience.

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VCU’s Adcenter changes with the industry

November 01, 2007 9:33 AM

The national profile of the Adcenter at Virginia Commonwealth University is on the rise. It was ranked the No. 1 graduate advertising program in the country in 2005 by Creativity Magazine.

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Brand masters

November 01, 2007 9:31 AM

When it comes to evolution, it’s hard to find a better example than Virginia’s Martin Agency. Like its quirkily contemporary Geico cavemen, the advertising firm sprang from primitive origins — a small shop doing mostly print work in a Southern city, far removed from the artistic chic of the East and West coasts. Yet over time Martin morphed into one of the country’s top-ranked agencies, producing breakout campaigns such as the Geico gecko and the UPS Brown ads.

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