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...analysts straight from B school. Dodge & Cox rarely hires people who have worked elsewhere in finance: disagreements are fine (and considered a strength), but operating with a different investment philosophy isn't. "When we visit, it's almost eerie how on the same page everyone is," says Morningstar analyst Dan Culloton...
...issue is widespread, said Dan LeClair, who teaches city planning at Boston University. "It's not just pipes," he said. "It's bridges, it's roads, it's electrical systems, it's a variety of things that can happen in a man-made environment that can have a disastrous effect." A recent report by the Urban Land Institute determined that America's comparatively low investment in various transportation infrastructure - airports, public transit, railway systems, roads and bridges - has created an "emerging crisis." Of the 30 state transportation planning directors surveyed for the report, 25 said the nation's transportation infrastructure...
...over another. The Washington Post runs a regular feature called "Faces of the Fallen" for U.S. military casualties, but no such feature exists for the steady accumulation of teenage corpses in the District of Columbia. "He's saying something true, regardless of how you slice through the statistics," says Dan Kahan, a Yale Law professor who has spent years studying how Americans perceive gun risks. "It's a salient way to bring people's attention to an empathy deficit. The failure of this group [of Chicago school kids] to register tells us something about ourselves...
...over a conference table in a cramped and sweaty office in Istanbul's hectic Kadikoy district, toiling late into the summer night writing blogs, collecting Web clippings and organizing marches. When he finds time for a book, it's the writings of Turkey's revered founder Kemal Ataturk, not Dan Brown. "I could have been starting my career," he says with a wry smile. "Instead, I am doing this...
...once again being deferred. Repeated attempts to persuade Serbia, and its key ally Russia, to agree to a U.N. sponsored independence plan for the Balkan province have failed. Now, despite promises this spring that the plan would be approved in May, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Dan Fried has told Kosovar leaders that they may now have to wait until 2008 before their dream is fulfilled. Nor is that a sure thing. Kosovo's Prime Minister and former rebel commander Agim Ceku barely contained his frustration. He demanded an "exact calendar, an exact date and a clear...