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...full up’ with atrocities and horrors,” wrote Roger Casement in a letter to the British Foreign Office in March 1911. Casement, a diplomat and activist, had just returned to London from the Amazon jungle, where he had spent several months investigating the rumoured exploitation of Barbadian workers—at that time, British subjects—by a rubber manufacturing company. The Peruvian Amazon Company, Casement found, was abusing not only its Barbadian employees, but also enslaving and terrorizing the local Indian population. In the years following these revelations, until his death in 1916, Casement...
...Amazon's Pricing...
...iPad started it. When Apple introduced its new tablet device on Jan. 27, it also announced an iBook store where publishers could set their own prices for e-books. Publisher Macmillan responded by demanding that online retailer Amazon sell Macmillan e-books for as much as $14.99, up from $9.99. Amazon did not agree with that idea. The website removed "buy" buttons from e-texts published by Macmillan, angering authors and customers. Some prospective buyers, however, sided with Amazon, vowing that they would not pay more for Macmillan e-books. The freeze began to thaw Jan. 31, when Amazon started...
...Amazon's shares recently traded at $115.85 a share. Anmuth has a 12-month price target of $165 on the stock while Khorsand is even more bullish with a $200 target. "I think there's considerable upside from here," says Khorsand. "They have a level where operating margins are tracking above 5% in 2010 and that provides them with a level of cash flow and earnings that would support a $200 stock price...
...time when U.S. Ph.D.s in science and math are at historic lows (as President Obama has also pointed out). This is not just hyperbole; among those who have cited the Apollo program as their inspiration to go into science and technology are Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (who now runs a space company). Imagine today’s world without these individuals, not to mention the many thousands of others who were inspired by Apollo, and one gets a sense of the devastation Obama’s decision can wreak on our economic and cultural future...