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...surprisingly moderate sum. According to John Ambrose, founder and director of Fragments of Time, a Boston-area antiquities dealer, they're within even a modest investor's reach. "For under $10,000 a year you could acquire two to four quality objects with good provenance that you could expect would not only hold their value but increase in value over time," he says. In the past, the increase was anywhere from 8 to 9% annually, but in recent years that figure has gone...
...might expect on Wall Street, money is the prime motivator. So long as cash continues to flood into environmental investment vehicles, new ones will keep being created. "There is a lot of demand for these eco-products," says Ronald van der Ham, assistant director of equity structuring for ABN Amro, and that is what's driving "the constant stream of new indices and new funds being launched." Lipper FERI, a mutual-fund information provider in London, estimates that Europe's environmental and ecological equity funds alone raised nearly $8 billion in the first three quarters of 2007, almost $4 billion...
...environmentally-friendly production line will be up and running before we begin class next year. This plan may sound ambitions. It should. It’s one of many big promises, none of which is guaranteed to succeed. It would be naïve to expect that alone any of them could reverse the course of global climate change. But if they do become realities, these are the kinds of ideas that have the potential to change our world in a radical way, and that in concert with other breakthrough technologies may have a significant impact on worldwide emissions...
...It’s frustrating, because we can’t expect to win hockey games by scoring one or two goals all the time,” Donato said after the tie against Vermont...
...Europe. This semester, students studying abroad have watched the dollar’s tumbling value in dismay, as it jacks up the cost of their time abroad. When David H. Garcia ’09 arrived in Paris this September, he didn’t expect the sharp difference in prices. “There was definitely a [price] sticker shock,” he said. “I was not totally prepared.” In the past year, the dollar has fallen by 5 percent against the pound and 10 percent against the euro, hitting record lows...