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This week, Deepak Chopra, medical expert, ayurvedic entrepreneur and New Age savant picks up another title: New Testament author. Chopra's book, Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment, speculates a story of the Messiah-to-be during what might be called his early Wanderjahr. And wander he does. We meet Jesus consulting with a guru on an icy mountaintop in what seems like Tibet. He gets caught up with armed Jewish zealots, dallies with the Essenes (who collected the Dead Sea Scrolls) and eventually achieves a oneness with God. Chopra spoke with TIME about his novel...
...dealbreaker. The carbon-intensive fossil fuel provides nearly half of the United States' electricity, and is responsible for some 30% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions. That's just due to the coal plants already operating - as the U.S. looks to expand its energy supply to meet rising demand in the future, over 100 coal plants are in various stages of development around the country. If those plants are built without the means to capture and sequester underground the carbon they emit - and it's far from clear that such technology will be commercially viable in the near-term...
...Managers are getting squeezed on all sides. As investors pull out, hedge funds are being forced to raise cash to meet redemptions by liquidating their holdings. In addition, highly leveraged funds are being forced by their bankers to come up with more collateral as the value of their holdings falls, forcing managers to sell more shares to raise more cash. It's a vicious circle: funds are rushing to sell the same illiquid securities, driving stock prices down and triggering new waves of selling. This mass deleveraging by the industry has been cited as one of the causes of recent...
...were all incredibly intense, but no one was open about it,” Andrea told me. “I didn’t find out anyone who had real political ambitions. You’re not open and honest about it when you first meet. You ally yourself to people. It takes a year or so to reveal why they’re really doing it. We’re all doing it because we want to be senator and governor and president.” The way she describes the UC—the intrigues, the secret...
Next to the four diverse, smiling faces on the Harvard College Financial Aid Office Web site is a prominent statement: “Helping You Meet Your Needs.” Peruse the site further and you will find it is replete with reminders of the financial might of an institution supported by a multi-billion dollar endowment...