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...different. According to a report out May 20 from the Network, a U.S. firm that runs compliance and corporate-governance hotlines for about half the Fortune 500, fraud-related calls amounted to 21% of all reports in the first quarter of this year, up from 14% in the same period in 2007. While reports of problems such as harassment, discrimination or health and safety transgressions saw "no appreciable increase," according to Luis Ramos, CEO of the Network, the number of whistle-blowers reporting fraud, theft or the misuse of company assets is "going up dramatically...
...slightly easier. The next step will be to try to use known autism genes to help develop screening tools or early interventions. "We are going to have a much better understanding of the causes of autism over the next five to 10 years," says Dawson. "We're in a period of great discovery...
...newly proposed regulations will still have to go through the usual period of commenting, and there's always a chance that such a fragile coalition of politicians, greens and auto executives could collapse. But the very fact the White House brought - and kept - everyone at the table offers some hope as the much tougher battle over carbon cap and trade boils in Congress. "President Obama made the creation of a clean-energy economy a key aspect of his domestic agenda, and he's fulfilling that," says Weiss. It's a good start - but there's still a long road ahead...
...you’ve been having a rough exams period and are in need of a good catharsis, read this. No, it isn’t one of those irritating stop-worrying-about-grades-because-they-don’t-actually-matter treatises. It’s an article about a pretty amazing 70-year study that has followed about 200 Harvard students from the late 1930s (including JFK) to find out what truly makes us happy...
...issue in Japan's fashion industry, especially after the entry of H&M," says Dairo Murata, a retail analyst at Credit Suisse in Tokyo. Luxury-brand sales in Japan are expected to decline 10% in the first half of the year compared with sales in the same period in 2008. (See the world's most influential people in the 2009 TIME...