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There is a fashion trend afoot in the 02138. It’s hotter than Ray-Bans and hotter than Tory Burch loafers. It’s a T-shirt trend. I was first confronted with it the other day as I groggily stumbled to Peet’s for an early morning coffee. Typing an e-mail as I walked along, I nearly collided with a boy in a white T-shirt that read “HIV-Positive” in big, purple, block print. I looked up at him and mumbled some apology...
...company like Goldman has access to plenty of talent, but shaping a team in a hot market with a lousy infrastructure required a new strategy. As more foreign banks move in and local institutions grow, salaries in India's financial-services sector, like those in the even hotter technology sector, are skyrocketing, and turnover in many firms tops 35%. Goldman "took a different approach to hiring than most multinationals," says Luis Moniz, a Mumbai-based analyst for the human-resources consultancy Heidrick & Struggles. Most rivals tried a balanced approach, with half local hires for on-the-ground expertise and half...
Until the court reengages Musharraf on that issue, the President can deal with the other, hotter front in his battle to remain in charge of Pakistan. In the two weeks since Musharraf ordered the army into Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, to arrest Islamic extremists - an order that resulted in the deaths of dozens of militants and ten soldiers - Pakistan's Islamist extremists have retaliated with a series of attacks that have killed more than 180 people, most of them soldiers and police. A U.S. intelligence report this week concluded that Pakistan's policy of non-engagement...
Where air conditioning use was most prevalent, however, was actually where mortality was the lowest on average. Schwartz said that it was those “hotter places” where acclimatization was strongest, resulting in the fewest number of heat-related deaths...
Indeed, says Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, West Africa is "only going to get hotter. It has the location and the resources; the technology is now there to develop them; and companies from all over the world want to be in on the action." Rising demand from India and China and worries over instability in the Middle East have fueled higher oil prices, and those in turn have precipitated a new scramble for energy - oil rigs worldwide now have to be rented a year in advance. There are several reasons why the Gulf of Guinea...