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...stock options--and the perverse incentives that come with it that pose the biggest concern. Because most corporations do not deduct the cost of options from their bottom line, CEOs have no reason not to stuff their pockets with options. So far, Bush has declined to address this crucial accounting issue, and Arizona Senator John McCain's attempts to push it were blocked last week. But in an encouraging development, West Coast real estate firm AMB Property just became one of the few U.S. companies (along with Boeing and Winn-Dixie Stores) to deduct the expense...
...start with, it is nearly 7 million years old--a million years more ancient than the previous record holder. Indeed, this new species is as much older than the famous Lucy as Lucy is older than we are. It almost certainly dates from very near that crucial moment in prehistory when hominids began to tread an evolutionary path that diverged from that of chimps, our closest living relatives. Even more surprising, this ancient hominid was not discovered anywhere near the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where all the record setters of the past three decades have been found. Instead...
That puts the new Sahelanthropus tchadensis at a crucial evolutionary crossroads. Scientists have long believed that apes and humans share a common ancestor. But recently, comparisons of fossil and modern primates and analyses of modern ape and modern human DNA have independently indicated that a single ancestral ape gave rise to both chimps and hominids between 5 million and 7 million years ago. That presumed great-great-great-grandape almost certainly swung from trees in the African forest. If so, then Sahelanthropus, or Toumai, could well have been the very first hominid, or at least one of the first...
...former E.C.B. vice president, has been mentioned, but he may fall foul of rules that say board members' terms are "nonrenewable." Of course there is always the possibility that the French will swallow their pride and let the position fall to a capable outsider. But although the E.C.B. sets crucial monetary policy for 12 nations and prides itself on independence from politics, that's a bet few seasoned gamblers would take. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY A Fight for the Rights to Silence When Mike Batt, British writer of cutesy hits like Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes, was finishing his latest work, Classical...
...This is not moving a program to Allston, it is dividing the institution into two,” Cuno said. “It is crucial to our teaching that we remain in the Yard...