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...imperiled as it might be, all the world's bluefin catch accounts for less than 3% of the tuna that people eat. For the $175 that a plate of Honda's maguro runs to, you can buy half a year's supply of canned tuna from the Ocean Canning Corp. in General Santos. Inside Ocean Canning's processing plant, rows of men and women in blue smocks skin, bone and pack thousands of fish into cans sent to customers in Europe. Outside, dozens more would-be workers line up at the cannery's office, applications in hand. If there...
Radio has many would-be saviors. There are those, like the recently merged Sirius and XM, that have put all their chips on the pay-radio table. Others, including iBiquity Corp., believe the future is in HD radio. And there are others, like Mike Agovino, COO of Triton Digital Media, who believe that all radio stations need to create a digital infrastructure: ESPN Radio apps, Internet video of musicians or a morning-show host, online audio streamed through your computer at work. "We talk about the infinite dial," says Agovino. "The ability to access 20-, 30-, 40,000 radio stations...
...Most Army psychiatrists now have a full caseload of men and women returning from combat zones with PTSD. A survey by the Rand Corp. in April revealed that 1 in 5 service men and women are coming back with posttraumatic stress and mental depression. Previously known as "combat fatigue" or being "shell-shocked," PTSD was only diagnosed as an illness in the 1980s, but it has been around for as long as men have been killing one another and undergoing fearful experiences. It can lead to outbursts of rage, emotional numbness, severe depression, nightmares and the abuse of alcohol...
...everyone is enthusiastic, and doubts about Chrysler's future were reinforced Tuesday when the company reported a stunning 30% drop in sales for October. By contrast, both the newly profitable Ford Motor Co., and General Motors Corp., which had followed Chrysler into bankruptcy, reported modest sales increases during what was the best month for new cars sales in more than year. "The industry showed signs of improvement this month, which is a trend we expect to continue for the remainder of the year," said Fred Diaz, the top executive in Chrysler Sales Organization, as he scrambled to put a good...
...investment bankers, and I say this with humility. Investment bankers always have No. 1 market share because they only count the deals that they do. Similarly media moguls look like geniuses because they only talk about the deals that went well. The best example of that is when [News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch bought MySpace - and it's rumored Tom Freston lost his job [as Viacom CEO] over not buying it - everyone talked about MySpace and how smart that was. But several weeks apart from MySpace News Corp. spent even more money on an Internet game company called IGN that...