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...with his American counterparts; he told TIME he had "profound respect" for the U.S. regulators and described his own agency as a "junior institution." Before Christmas, when GE's competitors called on the case officer assigned to the merger, Enrique Gonzalez-Diaz, to persuade him to start a lengthy "phase two" investigation of the deal, Gonzalez-Diaz accused them of whining...
...books are essential to a fair and efficient market, but the credibility of soundbite-dishing analysts is not. During the dot-com gold rush, a lot of investors bet a lot of money on analysts whose opinions turned out to be rubbish. Now we're in the head-shaking phase, where everyone's gotten wise and the hidden-agenda company analysts of the late '90s are down in financial history with snake-oil salesmen. Should anyone have been too surprised...
America's culinary taste is going through its neo-neolithic phase: burned flesh is more popular than ever. The apron-and-tong brigade snapped up 15.4 million outdoor grills in 2000, up 32% from 1997, according to Barbecue Industry Association figures. And while most were gas fired, sales of wood chips and chunks are up almost 50% too. About 75% of American households own a barbecue, and more than half of them are used all year. The best-selling cookbook in America at the moment is How to Grill by Steven Raichlen, who has started a Barbecue Boot Camp after...
...money, coupled with a million dollars from MIT, will fund the initial pilot phase of OCW, which aims to provide its entire curriculum—lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists and assignments—online, free of charge...
...first phase of OCW will go online next fall with the goal of putting 500 courses on the Internet. All of MIT’s course material will be available within eight years, according to the initial timetable...