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...close Camp Ashraf. If the White House allows the Iraqi government to close the camp, the Iranian leadership is likely to see the move as a sign that the new Administration is eager to ease tensions between Washington and Tehran. A continuation of the status quo, however, could chill Obama's early outreach efforts...
Whatever the magic, it's still working. As toy stores around the world feel the chill of recession, the Rubik's Cube is in the middle of a comeback. Global sales reached 15 million last year, up 3 million over 2007, according to Seven Towns Limited, the British firm that licenses all of Rubik's creations. When New York City toy retailer FAO Schwarz reintroduced the Cube 18 months ago it became one of the store's Top 20 selling toys within weeks; sales have stayed steady despite the economic downturn. In Britain, Cube sales are up 300% over...
...Former SEC enforcer Carton also sees this 2006 "Pre-Authorization" policy as being deadly for enforcement morale. "It put a complete chill on enforcement," Carton says. His "Day One" advice for Schapiro: kill this program...
...chill that came with this program may have turned to a deep freeze in regard to Madoff. The same year the pre-authorization policy was enacted, SEC examiners gave Madoff's organization, after registering as an investment adviser, a clean bill of health. Just months earlier hedge fund whistle-blower Harry Markopoulos had given SEC enforcement officials 29 red flags about Madoff's $50 billion fund, presciently calling it the world's biggest Ponzi scheme. Nobody cared. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
...phrase "molecular gastronomy," (McGee maintained that the term was born at a scientific conference in the early 1990s in an attempt to make inquiries into cooking sound more impressive; physicist Cassi suggested that he coined the phrase some years later), Adrià urged the audience to, essentially, chill out. "If we keep seeing science and cooking as two Martians coming at each other with test tubes, we all lose," he argued. "We have to normalize the relationship between them." A few hours later, as Elena Arzak demonstrated sauces that change color on the plate, and Dani García used...