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...aware that Enron was cooking the books. "The problem is, he's a Ph.D. economist," says Wynne. "It's going to be a very hard sell." Plus, says Wynne, if he wasn't involved in the business, why was he drawing such a large salary? "Lay's basic response is, 'I wasn't there. I wasn't around. And I was kept in the dark about what was going on,'" says Androphy...
...international financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund crippled the African nations' capacity for progress by insisting on conditionality for financial support. Children were among the victims of such rigidity, he said. School fees, for example, were a condition of loans and thus deprived millions of children from free basic education...
...Stanford, most of the students graduate in five years. Most students take a year to do some research, either clinical research or basic science research. So I took a year to do some basic science research and orthopedic surgery. The second year, the reason I'm graduating in six instead of five with most of my classmates, is that I'm writing a second novel. The first one was really kind of crammed in around the corners of my studies and then my lab work. The second one I needed to take this chunk of time to work...
...report on farmers' protests throughout the Chinese countryside elicited heartfelt sympathy from readers who are appalled by that government's corruption, land grabs and failure to provide basic services. But there was also alarm over what a destabilized China might mean for its neighbors "Inside the pitchfork rebellion" [March 13] suggested there may be a revolution in the making in China. What will happen if 900 million oppressed farmers rise up to get justice and revenge? It would be naive to applaud such a development. History shows us that revolutions never lead to what is hoped for. Instead, chaos spreads...
...straight away the stain change from red to pale gray as the pH swaps over and the pigment starts to break down and the wine loses its staining ability." Lush hopes the book will help others see cleaning crises the way she does: as puzzles. "It's basic chemistry," she says. "The building blocks of everything around you are pretty simple. You just need to look at things and question how they work." And if you don't know, "Experiment...