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...maker in Peoria, Illinois, because they feared the company's booming China business was suddenly going to fall off the cliff should probably rethink that a bit. As Jun Ma, the chief economist for greater China at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, says, "We do not see any significant impact of this market correction on China's real economy. We remain bullish on the fundamentals of the economy," which is still steaming ahead this year at a growth rate of nearly...
...others to disappointing manufacturing data, yet others to that Greenspan speech. "Our minds are ... capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability," writes derivatives trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his soon-to-be-published book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable...
...late, though, that idyllic picture of Mother Nature's playground has been sullied by a string of unconnected calamities, adding up to one long winter of discontent. Meteorological disasters, shocking deaths, bureaucratic fumbles and other improbabilities, all separate but equal in their impact, have confounded natives and newcomers alike...
Over the next two years, scientists from more than 60 countries will travel around the North and South poles to study geology, biology, ocean chemistry and the impact of climate change...
...have audiences under 21 after 11 p.m.Even so, Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07, a disc jockey for WHRB’s Record Hospital and outgoing president for the Harvard College Alliance of Rock and Roll, says she feels that these restrictive measures have a significant negative impact on the music scene and other communities that frequent 18-plus venues in Boston. “City officials have cited safety as their main motivator in creating this policy. However, it seems like a drastic means to an end,” she writes in an e-mail...