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...August, researchers at the University of North Carolina in the U.S. released the world's first comprehensive study on coral in the Indo-Pacific region, home to 75% of the world's coral reefs, focusing on waters from Japan to Australia and east to Hawaii. The outlook is grim. In recent decades, at least 600 sq. mi. (1,550 sq km) of reef have disappeared every year. "People thought the Pacific was in much better shape," says John Bruno, lead author of the study. Scientists assumed that far-flung reefs in the vast waters of the Pacific would be safely...
...August 7, researchers at the University of North Carolina released the world's first comprehensive study on coral in the Indo-Pacific region, which stretches from Japan to Australia and east to Hawaii, and is home to 75% of the world's coral reefs. The outlook is grim. Between 1968 and 2003, more than 600 sq. mi. of reef disappeared in the region - that's 1% a year, twice the pace of rainforest decline - and the losses are hitting well-protected areas like the Great Barrier Reef just as hard as the stressed, overfished reefs that surround crowded countries like...
...system when it gets out of whack, we're talking years, not weeks. "Real estate," says housing economist Thomas Lawler, "is a slow, tedious process." In July, after the two Bear Stearns hedge funds first ran into trouble, bond guru Bill Gross of Pimco wrote a foreboding investment outlook, pointing out that hedge funds tied up in trading are the top layer of the problem, not the root. That can be demonstrated in the Mile High City and, as Gross wrote, "in the Summerlin suburbs of Las Vegas, Nevada, and in the extended city limits of Chicago headed west towards...
...intellectual vitality and international outlook promise to serve our Design School well," Faust said in a statement...
...Companies are trying to foster camaraderie and loyalty in other ways as well. Every new employee of Tokyo p.r. firm Bilcom, for example, must spend a weekend making a three-minute digital slide show sharing their most moving personal experiences. One worker revealed how 9/11 changed his career outlook; another talked about how she drew strength from a gay classmate who came out in college. Company president Shigeru Ota says the presentations are designed to "create a new type of family company [by] sharing life history ... delight, anger, sorrow and pleasure...