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Dartmouth continued its offensive burst with four more unanswered goals, highlighted by Newitt, Smith and freshman Kate Killen, who notched a goal and an assist apiece...
...news didn't come as a complete shock. When Davidson started out, money ran freely. "The mood was, 'Gosh, Dell has oodles of loot,'" he says. "'Let's just spend, spend, spend.'" But last spring, when the dotcom bubble burst, everything changed. It was harder to get anything more than a bare-bones computer to work on, and training was halted for several months. "You could practically hear the screws being tightened," says Davidson...
Where this burst of public and private activity leaves the Administration is anyone's guess. The E.U. and the other Kyoto signatories may continue to proceed as if the protocol is still alive, hammering out such complicated details as emissions trading, which would permit countries that exceed their required cuts to sell credits to other countries, allowing them to fall short of their own. The U.S. has not said it won't attend the July meeting, though things could get awkward if Washington has pulled out of the pact and sends its representatives simply for appearances. So far the White...
What makes the burden on cities lighter is a sudden burst of environmental awareness from a surprising source: industry. In recent years, more and more multinationals have been turning unexpectedly green, and one example is British Petroleum. Shortly after Kyoto was signed, BP CEO Sir John Browne set his company's goal of cutting CO2 output 10% below its 1990 levels; four years later, he is halfway there. BP has achieved this in part by reducing the amount of greenhouse emissions that flare away in oil fields and refineries. The company is also looking into cutting carbon content in fuel...
...cushion. And small-cap foreign stocks give you the most protection. Over the past three years, their correlation with U.S. stocks has been just .57. And remember that market relationships constantly shift. High correlations don't have to stay that way. Now that the global tech bubble has burst, different stock groups may emerge as leaders in different regions. Which makes now a fine time to buy a good foreign small-cap fund, such as T. Rowe Price International Discovery or Wanger International Small Cap. On Wall Street, once a theory gets popular, it's time to try another...