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...Since the Nomad's fees are paid for by the company wanting to be listed, it might seem AIM is built on a giant conflict of interest, but Nomads counter that traditional auditors and accountants are company-paid, too. In practice, says Philip Secrett, a partner at Grant Thornton Corporate Finance, one of the largest Nomads, only a "small minority" progress onto AIM; most are turned away for being too immature or unsound. And there is AIM's track record: around 3% of AIM-listed companies fail annually, a figure roughly comparable with the main market...
Would that be safe? Carbon dioxide can be lethal, a fact grimly illustrated in 1986 when a giant surge of the stuff bubbled up from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, asphyxiating 1,700 people as they slept. Nonetheless, investigators involved in the Thornton project insist there is little cause for worry. "The fields held oil and gas for millennia," says Larry Myer, an earth scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., and the project's director, "so geologically we know they're going to hold...
After its first lap, globalization gets really interesting. The stuff you invented--in this culinary case, fast-food hamburgers, fried chicken, pizza and doughnuts--gets sent out into the world, is replicated by other countries and then comes back to you all crazied up, like a giant game of telephone. And if you hold that piece of Filipino fried chicken up to your ear and are really quiet, you can hear what the rest of the world thinks about...
...largely left to New Jersey landscaper Marc Torsilieri. For 25 years Torsilieri and his team felled the Norway spruce--usually 80 ft.--plus--and prepared it for moving by hinging lower limbs and scurrying to its upper extremities to tie up delicate branches. After hauling the evergreen in a giant tractor-trailer, with a police escort, he helped decorate it with 30,000 lights. He was 48 and had pancreatic cancer...
...demeanor too. "Jonny, by instinct, has many of the same qualities as Henry," says Hirst. "He has a short attention span. He never thinks there's anything he can't do." All of which helps when the actor has to declare war, ride a horse while carrying a giant wooden lance and speak five languages convincingly. "I had other images of Henry," says Rhys Meyers, who changed his mind after some research. "But I realized the profound aesthetic and cultural change he had on his country and how it shaped Europe's destiny...