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...giant global bank HSBC estimates human-to-human transmission could make ill half its worldwide staff. The World Bank is calling for rich nations to donate millions - to pay for mass culling, compensation and animal vaccination - to the places where the disease has lodged, and wants the West to invest in research to speed up the development of effective antiviral treatments before human-to-human transmission takes off. In Turkey, meanwhile, the virus may already be endemic: a permanent presence that would constantly threaten to invade Europe in the future. Even if everyone has learned the lessons of previous health...
...COMPANIES DRILL MORE WELLS? Oil and gas companies are flush with profits, so they could afford it. Exxon Mobil alone earned nearly $10 billion in the third quarter, a record for any U.S. firm. But companies seem more inclined to buy one another's assets and invest in proven reserves than go hunting for new sources. Conoco Phillips recently bid $35.6 billion for Burlington Resources, one of the world's largest natural-gas producers. In the contiguous 48 states, easily accessible fields are running full tilt. "We've had great success finding new reserves, but these are unconventional sources...
...exceed $40 million for fiscal year 2006 and could grow in coming years (see story, page 1), could make it challenging for Harvard to find the resources to offer such courses. In light of these deficits, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby insists that he is prepared to invest heavily in better introductory classes...
...current proposal threatens just that. As Janet R. Howard, chief executive of the Bureau of Governmental Research, told The New York Times: “There are some very tough decisions that have to be made here, and no one relishes making them. But to say that people should invest their money and invest their energies and put all their hope into rebuilding and then in a year we’ll re-evaluate, that’s no plan at all.” There must be more governmental guidance in relocation at the expense of some personal choice...
...guys should invest in Terrence Howard. We think he's blue chip...