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Branding endangered species rankles some greens, but Michael Bean, chief of the Environmental Defense Fund's wildlife program, sees it as a positive trend as the list of imperiled animals grows and other funding falls. "Potentially, it can do a lot of good," he says, "as long as there are no strings attached." Australia's Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, spent a month with the hairy-noses as an Epping caretaker. "It's absolutely terrific what Xstrata has done," says Henry, an ardent conservationist. "There's opportunities for other corporates to get involved with other species." Memo to Tasmanian devil...
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...sometimes I bicycle in, so that’s fairly green.2. FM: What kinds of books are your children reading right now?CM: Lucien is reading “Amos and Boris” [By William Steig], and we’ve read “Jack and the Bean Stalk”.JW: Our daughter is reading “Harry Potter” and “The Railway Children” by E. Nesbit.3. FM: What is a typical dinner discussion like in your household? Do you discuss work, or recent literature?CM: Much of the discussion...
...official: the economy really is in free fall. When the bean counters at the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) came out a month ago with their first estimate of how fast the economy shrank in the fourth quarter, economists and investors were surprised that it was at a mere 3.8% annual rate. Now, after some of the updates and revisions that are a standard part of the process of estimating gross domestic product (GDP), the number is a far more dramatic...
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