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...commend the recent contract signed by German Education and Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn in Jakarta on March 14 to install an early-warning system, designed by Germany’s largest research institution, the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers. The system will be effective in registering earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis and is estimated to cost Germany’s national research center for geosciences, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, roughly 45 million Euro ($60.3 million), a paltry price to pay for the potential lives that will be saved by this early alert system...
...KOPPEL, who announced last week he would step down as anchor of ABC's Nightline after 25 years (and 42 with the network), isn't heading off to the links when his contract ends in December. The cerebral newsman says he is weighing offers to do the kind of long-form reporting he did in Iraq in 2003. He won't divulge the gigs, but says, "I'm not going to all of a sudden start doing fashion." Heidi Klum, rest easy...
...says the report exonerates him. Not exactly. The panel clears Annan of any role in securing contracts for Cotecna. But it also spotlights his lax oversight of the corrupt program and makes a strong "adverse finding" that faults him for failing to investigate his son's dealings thoroughly. Annan asked for an in-house probe, which dismissed the issues within a day. An independent inquiry, the report said, would have made it unlikely that Cotecna's contract would have been renewed through...
...Zollars, CEO of YellowRoadway, says the trucker is enjoying "the most robust pricing in my eight years" at the firm. Companies less sensitive to oil are raising prices too. Allied Waste just won a bid to dispose of Boston's trash for $82 a ton, up 6.5% from a contract last summer. Another small but significant bellwether: Campbell's, which hasn't raised premium-soup prices in five years, just went for a 5% hike. On Wall Street, meanwhile, money managers like Doug Sheres at Rice Hall James are moving into the stocks of companies with newfound ability to charge...
...Since taking her business home, Chanin has helped boost the local economy. About 200 contract employees now make each piece by hand. "One dress took 16 women three weeks to make," says Chanin, 43. "We might make one coat only 20 times. That means there are only 20 in the world, and each garment is handmade by someone different." That rarefied notion has splashed Project Alabama across the pages of Vogue, Elle and Vanity Fair and onto the racks of high-end retailers like L'Eclaireur in Paris and Barneys Japan in Tokyo. "We haven't invented anything new," explains...