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...NASCAR position itself to motor through the downturn? The sport has to start with its costs, which exploded during NASCAR's stunning growth spurt earlier this decade. "The old adage was, If you need $1 million in expenses, go get $1 million in sponsorship," says Mike Dee, president of Fenway Sports Group, which owns 50% of the Roush Fenway Racing team. "The railroad doesn't run that...
...makes an athlete stronger without inflating him like Bluto. Who knew? It's called Primobolan, and Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez has admitted using it in 2003 as a Texas Ranger. Given recent scandals, fans may soon need a chemistry degree to read the sports pages. Deca-Durabolin, stanozolol, human growth hormone, Depo-Testosterone, the cream, the clear--you can't keep 'em straight without a program...
...Masdar Initiative and its high-tech approach. Environmentalists are slowly realizing that a policy of regulation--so successful in combatting past pollution problems like acid rain--simply won't be enough for global warming. The scale of the climate crisis is too vast, and the world's growth too rapid. What's needed is technological innovation, green solutions as yet undreamt of, to utterly remake the way people use energy. Masdar's crash greening may be the future. "This is real, and it shows that they are thinking ahead in a constructive way," says Nicholas Stern, an influential British economist...
...Others in the industry disagree. While Dean of BDA acknowledges that the growth in mobile communications in China is mainly in rural areas where "your 700 millionth subscriber couldn't care less about 3G," he notes that the country's market is so huge there is room for 3G services to prosper. BDA projections put the total number of mobile subscribers in China at 1 billion by 2013, of which nearly a quarter - 247 million - will be 3G users...
...announced a new $2 trillion bank bailout yesterday—the funding for science was “small change.” But he added that he believes federal spending for science is invaluable and that biotech has been “one of our big engines of growth for the last 25 years.” “I don’t think the government is nearly over-supporting [science] at this point,” Rogoff said. “Science is one of [the nation’s] most competitive areas and certainly...