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...Here are some highlights from the discussion, which took place on Nov. 14 at TIME's New York City offices...
...know that I have always, and will always bleed purple." - referencing the company's signature color in a memo sent to Yahoo! employees Nov. 17, the day Yang announced he was stepping down as CEO of the company...
...political move more quixotic than attempting to pass sweeping environmental legislation during economic boom times may be trying to do so in the middle of the biggest economic maelstrom in decades. But President-elect Barack Obama apparently is not dissuaded. At an international conference on climate change convened on Nov. 18 by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Obama told the audience in taped remarks that he intended to stick to the aggressive carbon-reduction targets he promised before the election, beginning with a federal cap-and-trade system that would put the U.S. on course to reduce emissions back...
...These projects allow companies in developed countries to pay to preserve forests in rain-forest nations in exchange for the carbon credits contained within the saved trees. Indonesia has long been wary of the method, fearing that it would lose sovereignty over its sprawling forests, but the Nov. 18 announcement is a hopeful sign that the country will move to save the nearly 2 million hectares of forest it loses every year. "This is historic," says Tom Houston, managing director of Global Eco Rescue...
...Nov. 20, the Dom Pérignon is set to flow as international revelers from Robert De Niro and Jean Paul Gaultier to Bollywood star Bipasha Basu gather to celebrate the grand opening of the Atlantis, a $1.5 billion, 1,500-room hotel resort that is over-the-top even by Dubai's standards. A branch of Kerzner's landmark resort in the Bahamas, the Atlantis features opulent rooms from $450 to $35,000 a night; restaurants by star chefs Nobu Matsuhisa, Giorgio Locatelli, Santi Santamaria and Michel Rostang; a giant aquarium containing 65,000 marine animals; and the Middle...