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...when they make money on a particular hand. They focus on the intermittent rewards, rising and falling with each incremental shift in their fortunes. But for the professionals, it’s only the wide-lens view that matters. It’s the difference between magnifying a single dip or rise in the Dow Jones and seeing it from a few feet away as a simple hiccup in a concerted (and, for the expert poker player, orchestrated) upward trend. You’re not really a gambler until you’ve gone broke and made it back...
...Traill and his colleagues, after reviewing the most current data, found that a better rule would be 5,000 - meaning no fewer than 5,000 adult individuals are needed to keep a species safe from the threat of extinction. Dip below that level, and any sudden change - the loss of a valued habitat, a new disease - could wipe out a species before conservationists would have time to act. "Small populations have therefore reached a point of departure: away from the ability to adapt to changing environmental circumstances and toward inflexible vulnerability to those same changes," writes Traill. (Read "Extinction 'Gene...
...cooking demonstration and book-signing event Tuesday at the Harvard Coop Bookstore, Starza Kolman and Marta Holmberg, who are involved in PETA’s youth division, prepared three of their favorite dishes from the cookbook: Seven-Layer Mexican Dip, Silence of the Lambs Shepherd’s Pie, and Boozy Beer Bread. They offered a sampling of each dish to the audience and shared their personal experiences on dealing with the difficulties of being vegans in college...
While economists and investors fret over rising unemployment and fears of a double-dip recession, investment bankers and corporate lawyers are practically giddy over a recent surge in mergers and acquisitions activity in the tech sector, replete with limos, late dinners and potentially fat fees...
...recession has its silver linings. According to a forthcoming report by the International Energy Agency, sluggish trade, dwindling industrial output and greener government policies have put global carbon dioxide emissions on track to drop 2.6% in 2009, the largest slide in 40 years. Analysts hope the dip will bolster efforts to reach a new climate pact in Copenhagen in December. But so far, despite repeated calls for action, world leaders have made scant progress toward replacing the Kyoto Protocol, which expires...