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...legally binding bourse whose members, according to founder Richard Sandor, account for 8% of the greenhouse emissions from stationary sources in the U.S. "If we were a country," he says, "we'd be roughly the size of Britain." Members of the Chicago exchange, including Ford Motor Co. and DuPont, have pledged to cut their emissions 4% by the end of this year from the levels they averaged from 1998 to 2000. They have already taken tens of millions of tons of greenhouse gases out of play, which sounds impressive until it's compared with the 6 billion--ton plume...
That's if you, like millions of other job applicants, submitted to a personality test. At least 30% of employers--from governments to hospitals, restaurants to law firms, Wal-Mart to DuPont--use a version of the tests in hiring. Even CEOS get tested, which makes sense given their salaries. Carly Fiorina reportedly took a 900-question test before landing the top job at Hewlett-Packard...
Mahmud, 24, and I met at a Moroccan falafel place near Dupont Circle on a surprisingly sunny December afternoon. I guarantee that even if you looked carefully around the D.C. area, you would find very few “couples” like us—a Palestinian from Nablus and an Israeli from Herzliya, simply chatting for more than two hours, catching up on life. A week prior to our meeting, Mahmud had returned from a visit to Nablus, his hometown, after spending the past four years living rather comfortably in the United States. The story I heard that...
...picture of Nablus became clearer as dusk descended on Dupont Circle. Nabulsis were locked in their city, unable to commute to other cities for jobs and leisure. Most youths were unemployed, and therefore occupied themselves in illegal, worthless activities. Disillusionment with Fatah and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, was ubiquitous. Mahmoud Abbas had promised reforms, but nothing had changed. The roads were broken, electricity was erratic, and jobs were scarce. Thus, amidst the despair, rose Hamas...
...collection, which spans Chandler’s career from 1941 to 2004, features almost all of his lecture notes and professional correspondences. The papers could be significant for researchers tracing the evolution of the many giant corporations whose histories Chandler has chronicled, including chemical company DuPont and automaker General Motors...