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Stock prices usually reflect underlying value. But stocks can also be affected by things like summer vacations among hedge fund managers, or by late-December window-dressing by mutual-fund managers who want to have the hot performers in their portfolio at year's end. Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer, tells TIME's John Curran why these seasonal tea leaves are now bullish...
That means environmentalists will need to make the most of what time does remain. U.N. chief Ban is leading the way, organizing a one-day summit for world leaders on climate change during the General Assembly meeting in late September. "We want them to talk with each other, interact with each other," says Pasztor. That's key; climate-change policy has become far too important to be left up to the environment and energy ministers of the world, whose influence tends to be limited...
...government has taken some steps to fix this situation. Labor deregulation in the late 1990s allowed firms to cut costs and become more competitive by hiring temporary, part-time and irregular workers. This change has been, if anything, too successful. Part-timers and temps today make up a third of the labor force, and most of them are young. This group should be a wellspring of domestic demand. Young people starting out in life are usually prodigious consumers as they purchase cars, buy homes and raise children. But part-timers and temps are not eligible for company benefits and certainly...
...humanities working group, chaired by Humanities Dean Diana Sorensen, saw its membership list overhauled in late June. Ten professors who were initially listed as members in June were removed and six other professors were added to the list...
...Uganda sees the female condom as one way to regain the success the nation had in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the 1990s. After slashing its AIDS rate from more than 20% in the late '80s to about 6% in 2000, Uganda saw a leveling off of AIDS cases and then a slight rise. No one has been able to explain the reversal. Some say it's related to failed distribution programs for the male condom in the past. Other experts suspect that it's a result of foreign NGOs and governments pushing Uganda away from effective domestic programs that...