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...hundreds. It still sounds like a long time, but, says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton, "that comes to a couple of feet per century, and that?s more than society is equipped to handle." It doesn?t, moreover, take into account the two mammoth ice sheets of Antarctica, which pack about 20 and 200 feet of potential sea-level rise, respectively, if some new process is discovered that speeds their disintegration. Given what?s being reported in Greenland, the fact that nobody knows what that process might be should be little comfort...
...very important source of revenue for Tanzania and constitutes its largest export to the European Union. In the old continent, almost two million people enjoy Nile perch fillets each day. On the other side of the world, the same number of people starves in Tanzania. To carry fresh fish, mammoth Russian carrier planes depart from Mwanza Airport in Tanzania and arrive a few days later eager for more. The marvel of foreign currency creates a market for security guards, who risk their lives for a dollar a night, and for local prostitutes, who cater to the lonely plane pilots. After...
...literally wastes of space and money. So it was that first thing Monday morning, Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on federal financial management, signed a liability waiver and joined high-ranking postal officials on a 45-minute walking tour of the mammoth mothballed structure. "The federal government has no complete record of what properties it owns or what their condition or availability is," declared Coburn, who also held a formal committee hearing on the issue that same day. "We need to be better stewards of the taxpayers' money," said Coburn, just after completing...
...still months away. John Battelle, author of a book on Google, thinks transatlantic rivalry might be playing an outsized role. "I'm skeptical of government forays into free-market economies when the primary motivation is political," he says. And even if Quaero should prove revolutionary, to compete with the mammoth Internet companies it's best to own the domain Quaero.com. That name, however, already belongs to the North Carolina-based marketing and technology company Quaero Corporation. Patrick Dineen, its senior vice president of sales and marketing, says he is curious about his company's European namesake. He's not alone...
...course the biggest beneficiaries are those who get the mammoth checks and, in not a few instances, are so thankful they head straight for the door and sign up with a different brokerage promising them even greater riches next year. These do not include secretaries and clerks, whose bonuses run $10,000 or so. The folks who do the heavy lifting-that is, bankers who dream up odds-are-they'll-fail mergers over bottles of wine that cost $1,000 and traders who pass around the same piece of paper all day adding God-only-knows-what value...