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Over the past five years, researcher David E. Boufford and others affiliated with the Harvard University Herbaria—an extensive collection of pressed, dried plant specimens housed at a Divinity Avenue facility—have been working to collect specimens of plant life in the remote mountain range on the Tibetan Plateau...
...case is being billed as the largest hedge fund insider-trading case in history - its importance underscored by the fact that the feds got a wiretap to collect evidence, a technique normally reserved for drug busts and organized crime. "This is a monumental step for the government," says Stetson University law professor Ellen Podgor. "This is not the typical way you do a white-collar case." (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...sign of popular support for the measure that we were able to collect 180,000 signatures - three times the number we needed to present a legal initiative before parliament," says Jennifer Berengueras, spokeswoman for Prou (the word means "enough" in the Catalan language), the association that organized the campaign...
...there were no jobs. "When the economy is down, scammers take advantage of people who are anxious about their financial position," says FTC attorney Karen Hobbs. A growing area of concern: unemployment-insurance scams. (Make a note now that you should never have to pay anybody money to collect unemployment benefits...
...whether they will do it in an active way. An insurance exchange could just be a website that posts products, and you could do that with two people and an IT person. But if the purpose of an exchange is to negotiate, assure capacity of insurance plans and collect information - that's a big new function that most states would not be set up to do." Baucus' bill would not have exchanges negotiate with insurers, but an amendment added to the bill does call for a "rating system for plans entering the state exchange based on relative quality and price...