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...irritate the eyes), shaving cream and even the trainer’s sticky pre-wrap spray is a daily practice. In minor league baseball the use of foreign substances is not taboo; it’s just illegal. The substance of choice is ultimately applied to the middle and index fingers of the throwing hand in order to get a better “feel” for the baseball and also to enhance the break of certain pitches, especially the curveball. The use of pine tar is especially advantageous on colder nights since the stickiness helps duplicate the release...
...continent that made him rich, knows his private money has the freedom to make a few waves. And while his prize has guaranteed a lot of attention, the guts of his foundation's work is a new system to publicize the successes and failures of African leaders - the Ibrahim Index. Under the direction of Harvard Professor Robert Rotberg, it will set out objective measures of how the 48 sub-Saharan African countries are performing in many areas, from corruption to judicial independence to respect for human rights to the delivery of health and education...
...Ibrahim's big idea is using the prize and the index to create a new tool to help people hold their politicians to account. "We will name and shame," Ibrahim says. "We don't want good governance to be about &leaderacute; hiring a good speechwriter and winging it," but "real, measurable progress in people's lives. We need to give facts to the people so they can ask, 'What am I getting out of my leader here?' And having done that, we really want to celebrate the leaders who do well. Running an African country is the toughest...
Additionally, the Index showed that 38 percent of Americans believe that most leaders today have high ethical standards, down from 39 percent last year...
...Clean tech is gaining traction. In the first half of this year it has attracted $1.4 billion in venture funding, almost twice the amount invested in the first half of 2005, according to the CleanTech Venture Network, an industry-watcher. In May, NASDAQ launched its Clean Edge U.S. Index to follow 47 publicly traded clean-energy stocks. Institutional investors are finally catching on, too. Investment banks, hedge funds and state pension funds like CalPERS (the California Public Employees' Retirement System), which has put $700 million toward renewable energy technologies, have helped make clean energy tech's fastest-growing sector...