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...more carbon dioxide per mass than a mature tree. With volatile oil prices and environmental concerns boosting interest in wood energy on both sides of the Atlantic, Strickland saw an opportunity. "We're the closest supplier to Europe and the U.S.," Strickland says. Back in Toronto, his hedge fund formed a company, Buchanan Renewable Energies (BRE), and readied an IPO. (See pictures of oil in Canada...
...other parts of the continent - Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania and much of southern Africa - a new generation of African leaders has embraced democracy and the rule of law, and is making clear a preference for business and self-reliance over aid. Despite the global downturn, the International Monetary Fund predicts sub-Saharan Africa will grow by an average of 1.5% this year. Seven African countries will grow by 5% or more, with Liberia expecting 4.9% growth in 2009 and 7.5% next year. While the G-8 leaders discuss how to help, some parts of Africa are getting on with business. "Whereas...
...nearby expatriate housing colony, down a 50-mile (80 km) stretch of road whose potholes can swallow a small car, and you'll come to Buchanan. When Joel Strickland, 47, first visited Liberia three years ago to scout for opportunities, he was a partner in a Toronto hedge fund. In Buchanan, Strickland was struck by the number of moribund rubber plantations. Untended during the war or destroyed by marauding militias, hundreds of thousands of acres of trees were standing idle. Even in productive plantations, old trees were being burned as waste...
...that last item that most interests psychologists Anne McLaughlin and Jason Allaire at North Carolina State University. The duo are part of a team that was just awarded $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation to fund a four-year study of cognitive decline in the elderly - specifically, whether playing certain video games might help slow the effects of aging. The theory is that the strategy, memory and problem-solving skills necessary for mastering certain games may translate to benefits in the real world, beyond a glowing computer screen...
...Hell, yeah!' " she said. Others, however, had tried and failed to persuade Palin to rise above silly-season attacks. John Coale, for one. A prominent Washington attorney and fundraiser (and husband of Fox News' Greta Van Susteren), Coale helped Palin set up a PAC and a legal-defense fund. "She was very worried about money," he says, because the cost of defending herself against the various complaints ran some $500,000 in legal bills. Perhaps inevitably, the legal fund produced yet another ethics complaint...