Faisal Tahir Khan is not your average young entrepreneur. His background proves that hard work can indeed lead to an incredible amount of success. From his company’s in Kuala Lumpur to Jeddah to London, one of Faisal’s key ingredients to success is: building trust and confidence with your clients and network. An incredibly sincere and informed person, Faisal gave us some time to chat:

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Faisal Tahir Khan: An Entrepreneur with a Global Initiative

While browsing around the Pew polling site this morning — and, yes, we do a fair amount of that — we came across a chart on the Supreme Court that reminded us, for the billionth time, that assuming the average person follows the back and forth of Washington as closely as we do is a major mistake. Read full article > >

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The most amazing Supreme Court chart. Maybe ever.

Military veterans’ disability claims are buried under so much paperwork that the average wait for processing and a decision in the Bay Area is now 313 days.

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The Bay Citizen: Bay Area Veterans’ Disability Claims Are Buried Under Paperwork

For years, Mac users have been able to believe that they are safer than the average computer user and turned their noses up at antivirus software. But as Apple’s market share has grown, so has the threat to Mac users’ security. Read full article > >

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Flashback trojan shows Macs do get viruses

UK housebuilder Bovis Homes has reported a steep jump in profits for 2011 and says the average sales price rose to £180,100.

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Sharp profit jump for Bovis Homes

Mortgage rates remained unchanged for the second consecutive week, holding steady this week at an all-time low of 3.87 percent for the average 30-year fixed rate, according to the latest Freddie Mac Mortgage Market survey released Thursday. Read full article > >

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Mortgage rates hold steady at all-time lows

Single-family home prices in the United States fell in November, a closely watched survey showed, putting the average price down to a level last seen in 2003.

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Home Prices Decline Again

The District government has vastly improved its delivery of basic services over the past decade and by one key measurement has continued to improve this year, according to a review of city data. An analysis of how long it takes city workers to respond to certain problems shows that in 2000, the average request for service took nearly 90 days to resolve. That has dropped to five or fewer days over the past several months, the data show. Read full article > >

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Broken light in D.C.? Odds are it won’t be for long.

How different circumstances mean some families cope better than others on the average household income of £40,000.

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Is it easy to live on £40,000 a year?

Scientists at Facebook and the University of Milan reported on Monday that the average number of acquaintances separating any two people in the world is not six but 4.74.

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Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees

The conventional wisdom on the season-jeopardizing dispute between the NBA and its players union goes something like this: Millionaire owners and millionaire players are once again squabbling over how to divvy up a $4 billion annual booty, even as 15 million Americans can’t find full-time work and the average worker hasn’t received a raise in a decade. Read full article > >

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Steven Pearlstein: When life imitates basketball

Ralph Izzo, the chief executive of the New Jersey’s PSEG, isn’t your average utility executive. At Columbia University, he studied mechanical engineering as an undergraduate and later earned a doctorate in applied physics. At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, he did numerical simulations of fusion experiments and published or presented 35 papers on something called “magnetohydrodynamic modeling.” Read full article > >

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Growing field of ‘smart grid’ technology faces opposition over pricing, privacy

And now, from the folks who developed the atomic bomb, Kevlar underwear and the Humvee, presenting the latest in war-fighting technology: Caffeinated meat. That’s right, an Army lab here is testing a beef jerky stick that looks and tastes just like your average Slim Jim but contains an equivalent of a cup of coffee’s worth of caffeine to give even the sleepiest soldier that up-and-at-’em boost. Read full article > >

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MREs get a new kick with caffeinated jerky and Zapplesauce

The grill has barely been seasoned at the K Street NW location and Bobby Flay is already itching to unleash a second Bobby’s Burger Palace in the Washington area. A College Park outlet is expected to open sometime next month, a spokeswoman for the celebrity chef confirmed. The second location of Bobby’s Burger Palace will severely test the willpower, not to mention the weekly budget, of the average University of Maryland student. The burger joint will be located on the retail level of the Varsity at College Park , the six-story complex that redefines student housing. The Varsity, it seems, will not only offer U-Md. students flat-screen TVs, granite countertops, tanning beds and a fitness center, but also a chance to bite into gourmet ground beef. Read full article > >

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Bobby Flay to open second burger joint in College Park

During a period when federal pay is frozen for two years, the average increase in employees’ health insurance premiums for 2012 will be the lowest since 2008. The 3.8 percent hike is less than half of the 7.3 percent increase in premiums for 2011, the Office of Personnel Management announced Tuesday. Read full article > >

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Federal health insurance rates lowest since ’08