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...reason it did so is closely related to events that occurred that same autumn day, half a world away, at the Hague. Thousands of policymakers and scientists from all over the world had gathered, hoping to dot the i's, cross the zeds and umlaut the o's on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The protocol was devised to curb the industrial emission of six gases, CO2 among them, that are slowly--actually quickly in geological terms--turning the earth into a hothouse. But no final accord was reached...
...your heart out, Matt Drudge. India's defense minister George Fernandes resigned Thursday, joining a growing number of leading politicians and senior army officers forced to stand down in a corruption scandal revealed by a tiny New Delhi dot-com. Tehelka.com certainly made good on its promise of "news, views and all the juice" when it sent a few of its journalists out posing as arms dealers waving wads of cash at politicians and generals, and then filmed the resulting transactions with secret cameras. The result? A corruption dot-bombshell that has shaken India's political establishment to the core...
...Maseeh Rahman: Not really. In fact, this is not the first time Tehelka has caused a national sensation with its spy cameras. The cricket-match-fixing scandal that has rocked India's national sport began with the same dot-com, which sent well-known cricketer Manoj Prabhakar and some of their own journalists out with spy cameras to meet leading players and officials and get them talking about all the sleazy dealings. And what they uncovered forced the government to launch an FBI-type investigation, which led to some of India's leading cricketers, such as Ajay Jadeja and Mohammed...
...Neither side would discuss the deal, reportedly due in six weeks or so. But at first blush - and at the risk of saying anything even remotely optimistic these days about the dot-com economy - it sounds like a nice...
...Mart sat the dot-com boom out. The world's largest retailer didn't set up an e-tailing arm when everybody else did, instead applying New Economy technologies to its internal inventory/supply/ordering chains. It worked, and while the dot-coms dropped like flies, Wal-Mart had no massive investment to lose. (Its late entry, Walmart.com, was relaunched in November 2000 and isn't doing so well...