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...ideas are taking root worldwide. BASF Corp.'s carpet-fiber unit has developed a recyclable nylon that makes it possible to reconstitute old carpets into new. Swiss semiconductor maker ST Microelectronics has saved more than $60 million by cutting its energy usage and more than $20 million by reducing water consumption below baselines set in 1994--a program initiated after CEO Pasquale Pistorio's son Carmelo questioned his father's environmental stewardship. The company issued a "decalogue"--or 10 commandments--of environmental goals and empowered its divisions to become creative. The responses include using solar power and finding ways...
...slightly underweight--to see if the hormone will suppress their appetites as well. "We also want to move to long-term treatment and prove that over a week, say, you're still eating less," Bloom says. He is looking into the possibility that certain foods, particularly those high in fiber, may increase the level of PYY in the body naturally...
Penny stocks--those that sell for under $5 over-the-counter--are the slot machines of the equity market. Care to risk a couple of quarters? It's tempting, with the established exchanges now brimming with household names like Corning in the penny-stock range. The fiber-optic-equipment maker was once a $100 stock. Now it trades near a buck fifty. Wireless-phone company Sprint is at $9.25; computer retailer Gateway, $3.58; Sun Microsystems, $3.66. How can you lose? But as anyone who has been cleaned out by a 25[cents] slot can tell you, this is risky territory...
Corning—best known for the glass-making technology it uses to provide diverse products from dishware to television screens to fiber optic cables—has close ties to the University. The company was founded 151 years ago by the Houghton family, longtime benefactors of Harvard. The company’s current chief executive, James R. Houghton ’58, is a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing body...
Eberle notes that vegetarian diets done correctly are high in fiber and low in fat. "But where are the calories?" she asks. "World-class endurance athletes need in excess of 5,000 or 6,000 calories a day. Competition can easily consume 10,000. You need to eat a lot of plant-based food to get those calories. Being a vegetarian athlete is hard, really hard to do right...