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Before I arrived I fearfully pictured my host mom stuffing unidentifiable meat and cheese down my throat, ready to fatten up any young girl in sight. Instead, I discovered that she carefully watches the weight of her daughter and follows an American book’s advice about eating according to one of the four food groups it delineates. She was shocked I hadn’t heard of the diet guide. These American contributions to modern Russia make the McDonald’s near the Winter Palace seem like a positive cultural addition...
Another potential source of profits is the Internet - once legal and technical hurdles are overcome. Though music sold online will likely be priced very cheaply, savings in manufacturing and distribution could once again fatten margins. While the major labels have been slow to embrace the Internet, EMI insiders say Levy understands its potential. The company has already licensed music to more than 50 online music companies. If in the meantime Levy is successful in trimming costs and breaking new acts, EMI could be well positioned to reap the benefits of converting clicks to cash. That should have investors singing...
...this unabashed puffery is more likely due to the vested interests of analysts' colleagues on the dealmaking side than anything in the analysts' own portfolios. (After all, if they knew so much about how to fatten their own wallets, wouldn't they just buy winners instead of wasting credibility propping up dogs?) The real conflicts of interest are institutional, and keeping individual analysts from actively investing in their own sectors doesn't address the fundamental problem...
...social fund. "Amy brings investment discipline with social concerns." Domini's latest crusade: persuading the $7 trillion U.S. mutual-fund industry to post shareholder-resolution votes on its websites. "It's outrageous that managers are not telling investors how they vote," says Domini. "The small investor wants to fatten her wallet, but she also wants to breathe clean air and work in a safe environment...
What makes a primate species start breeding more like bunnies than bonobos? Hrdy points to that great watershed of prehistory, the dawn of the Neolithic era, with the invention of agriculture, about 10,000 years ago. For one thing, the changing diet allowed girls to fatten up for puberty earlier and wean their babies faster, thus bearing more babies per lifetime. Men began to define land and animals as property and sources of prestige, it would seem, and women as chattel to be fought over...