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...ends later this year, we won't exactly be out of the woods. "We are so focused on whether recovery will be at the end of this year or the beginning of the next that we lose sight of the more important question," said Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of bond-investing giant Pimco, at a conference in Los Angeles last week. "It's not whether the recession will be over; it's what does the new normal look like...
...borrow a little Obama magic may seem odd. By convention, Britain's royals steer clear of politics. But the Queen's eldest son has long stretched definitions with his passionate advocacy for environmental causes. He has recently helped garner international support around the idea of a rain-forest bond, a method of interim funding designed to ensure that trees are worth more alive than dead until carbon-trading schemes really take off. He has privately lobbied leaders from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to the Pope on the issue. That...
...produced significantly better quality sperm than when they looked at images of just women. Evolutionary biologist Leigh Simmons, one of the researchers on the study, stated that "males ejaculate more sperm, or sperm of better quality, when the risk of sperm competition is high." (See pictures of the best Bond girls...
Time-honored (and time-consuming) as it may be, this kind of handiwork still carries a whiff of the cutting edge here at Brioni, the Italian luxury suitmaker known for dressing everyone from James Bond to Nelson Mandela. The Dutch-born Ter Meulen is one of 12 design students from London's Royal College of Art (RCA) who arrived in Italy this winter for a crash course in tailoring at the company's factory in Penne, a town of 12,000 tucked into the rolling hills of Abruzzo...
...minor casting fiasco forced Benowitz to assume the roles of Hippolita and Putana on top of her directorial responsibilities. “It’s been very stressful. But it’s also been really great, because I think I’ve been able to bond with my cast in a way that I wouldn’t have done otherwise,” she says. Despite taking creative liberties with the tragedy, Benowitz believes that her particular interpretation of “’Tis Pity” remains true to the spirit of Ford?...