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...speech that U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is expected to command after he retires from his post...
...Between now and 2015, though, the project scientists won't exactly be sitting on their hands. Says Alan Stern, Principal Investigator for the New Horizons mission and head of space sciences at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., "People ask me if I'll go into a depression now. But I have a job, and I'm working on lots of projects. Anyway, in a year it will be at Jupiter, and at that point we'll have a whole lot of data to process...
...most persuasive piece of evidence in the new study, led by J. Alan Pounds of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica and published in Nature, is a graph that shows both annual changes in average temperature and the number of frog extinctions per year on the same grid: the jagged lines track each other with eerie precision. Species die-offs follow warm years 80% of the time. With tropical air temperatures from 1975 to 2000 rising three times as fast as the 20th century average, things should only get worse...
...York City, no doubt you'll be happy to learn that the combined bonus pool on Wall Street for last year's labor, which will be paid out in coming weeks, rose 16% to an all-time high of $21.5 billion, according to New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi. He's as happy as any Lower Manhattan diamond dealer. Those bonuses will bestow $1.5 billion of tax revenue on New York state's budget and another $500 million on New York City's budget, and by extension benefit all state residents...
...housing market they frankly cannot afford. The tenants don’t own the property and have no standing to whine about walking an extra block to the bus. Or anything really.7. Tactless law professors. Closely following the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz decided to pen a vicious piece calling the late Justice a “Republican thug” and accusing him of participating in bigoted acts like “heil-Hitlering” in front of Jewish students while at law school. This story has not been independently...