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...tide isn?t quite at full ebb yet, with a smattering of companies still waiting to tell Wall Street how bad things have been lately and how much better or worse they?re going to get. Among them: some telecom (Verizon), some energy (Williams, PG&E, Aon, Royal Dutch Petroleum), some grub (Tyson, Wendy?s, Del Monte Foods), some health care (Humana, Cardinal Health) and some tech (Scient, Applied Microsystems, Priceline.com). Thursday, the 23rd San Francisco Money Show opens by the Bay, and Logitech International - remember when everybody was doing this? - splits its stock...
...earnings invasion is back down to a scouting party, and the count of headliners presages far more bad news (American Express, Lucent, Xerox, Kellogg and Qualcomm) than good. Even the likely winners (Exxon, Phillips Petroleum) should only serve to remind stock-shoppers how low energy prices (and thus prospective profits) have gone lately...
...Bush Administration resists international action on climate change, governments and companies in Europe and Asia are positioning themselves to deal with the threat posed by emissions of greenhouse gases. British Petroleum, for example, is investing large sums in solar and other renewables and experimenting with carbon-trading schemes that offset emissions in one place with protection of forests that capture carbon. While such U.S.-based companies as General Motors and American Electric Power are also experimenting with carbon trading and clean fuels, they seem at the moment to be motivated more by the threat of boycotts by international environmental groups...
...worked in township hospitals and clinics, including in Alexandra. They envisioned a dramatic program that would highlight the social and health problems - particularly HIV-AIDS - in the townships. They convinced a long list of donors - which today include the European Union, Britain's Department for International Development, unicef, British Petroleum, the mobile-phone network MTN and the South African government's Department of Health - to put up the money, and 'Soul City' was launched nationwide on the South African Broadcasting Corporation's TV service in 1994. "We realized that to be effective we had to go out at prime time...
...into Scaturro at a sportswear trade show in Salt Lake City, Utah. Scaturro, who had already summited Everest, had heard of the blind climber, and when they met the two struck an easy rapport. A geophysicist who often put together energy-company expeditions to remote areas in search of petroleum, Scaturro began wondering if he could put together a team that could help Erik get to the summit of Everest...