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Today, China, the gulf nations and other state capitalists have amassed the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world. The world's state oil companies control some 90% of global energy resources. (Many of these companies invited in private investors in the 1990s only to throw them out later.) And...
Answer to Cancer: Prevention The extraordinary missed opportunity in fighting cancer centers on the lack of primary prevention: avoid, reduce and eliminate exposure to carcinogens [Oct. 6]. Shamefully, the National Cancer Institute invests only a minuscule amount to prevent cancer, opting predominantly for a posteriori treatment. Mortality for certain cancers...
'It just goes to show how the ocean keeps its secrets very well.' DEMIAN CHAPMAN, scientist with New York's Institute for Ocean Conservation Science, after a virgin shark gave birth--the second known instance of parthenogenesis in sharks
Consumers also can help save the seas--through the fish they buy. To that end, California's Monterey Bay Aquarium, along with the Blue Ocean Institute and the Environmental Defense Fund, is coming out with pocket guides to sustainable sushi. The groups base their ratings on the health of a...
Lower prices (and thus higher interest rates) for Fannie and Freddie bonds make it more expensive for the government mortgage guarantors to borrow, and that means that Fannie and Freddie have less money to purchase home loans. Which means a lower supply of capital available for mortgage issuers. The result...