Word: impaction
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...hard metrics for measuring these things makes it awfully easy for companies to gin up their equations and then brag about their green cred. But even the most cynical p.r. departments know that that's hardly a long-term solution. Climate change is already having a serious financial impact on business. Julie Gorte, a vice president for the mutual fund Pax World, points out that nearly half of the top-100 companies in the S&P 500 reported that their earnings had been affected by Hurricane Katrina--the kind of superstorm scientists believe will become more common as the globe...
...last several years, some in the United States and the world at large—an alarming number of whom are in positions of power—have remained frustratingly unconvinced of the importance and urgency of global warming. They see the evidence of man’s impact unpersuasive and delude themselves into thinking that any serious effects of any climate change that is occurring will occur so far into the future that they’re not worth worrying about. The decision to split the Peace Prize between Gore and the IPCC will increase the pressure on leaders...
...retail would abate once benefits begin to show. Another conglomerate, the $4.5 billion Mahindra Group, announced plans to enter the organized retail fray on the same day as the Mumbai protest. India's government, in a possible attempt to placate its leftist partners, has commissioned a study on the impact of organized retail on small stores to come up with measures to help them cope. As Guruswamy points out, "organized retail is the future, we can't keep it out. The point is to make its entry as painless as possible...
...importance of birth order has been known-or at least suspected-for years. But increasingly, there's hard evidence of its impact. In June, for example, a group of Norwegian researchers released a study showing that firstborns are generally smarter than any siblings who come along later, enjoying on average a three-point IQ advantage over the next eldest-probably a result of the intellectual boost that comes from mentoring younger siblings and helping them in day-to-day tasks. The second child, in turn, is a point ahead of the third. While three points might not seem like much...
...activists the power that would come from uniting religious conservatives, which had not happened before,” said University of South Carolina professor Majorie J. Spruill, who was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute last year and suggested that the Institute invite Schlafly to speak because of her impact on the American political landscape...