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...Martha Stewart. The homemaking guru spent five months in prison in 2004 after a series of events triggered by her sale of $228,000 in shares of biomedical firm ImClone Systems, the day before its value plunged 15%. Thanks to a 1997 Supreme Court ruling, even those who lack a connection to a company cannot trade on inside information if they know it is meant to remain confidential. (ImClone was run by Stewart's friend, Sam Waksal.) Ultimately, Stewart was not convicted of insider trading, but of lying to authorities and obstructing justice during the investigation. (Read "How Washington...
...like much radio content, it's mostly talk. Satellite radio has been stunted by the recession and a lack of must-have content beyond Howard Stern. Consumers have taken slowly to HD radio receivers--there's an industry joke that HD stands for Huge Disaster. And there's no money to invest in digital. "The biggest challenge we've got right now in the industry," says Agovino, "is that companies are struggling to stay out of the way of their bankers...
...Obama Administration argues that Russia and the U.S. have a common interest in stopping Tehran from building the Bomb. This is true, but only up to a point. Russia has a history of good relations with Iran. It has substantial trade interests there and appreciates Tehran's lack of support for radical Islamists in the North Caucasus. Moscow also fears that a pro-Western Iran would exclude Russian arms, technology and energy firms...
...lack of a better term, we had a little downfall,” he added...
...Philadelphia, superintendent Arlene Ackerman instituted a Parent University this year after expressing concern over low literacy rates for parents and children, as well as a general lack of parental engagement among low-income families, especially among African-American men. Tasked with cherry-picking the best elements from other programs around the country (and tossing the worst), Karren Dunkley, deputy of the Philadelphia School District's Office of Parent, Family and Community Services, and her colleagues realized that they needed to ground the program within the context of adult continuing education. That is, if you're trying to teach adults something...