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...after the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission had for a time banned short selling of a variety of financial stocks - a controversial move that critics believe was a simple case of finding a scapegoat in the midst of market chaos. "It was a little signal that Beijing has a plan - a slow, methodical plan to reform their markets - and they are sticking to it," says a U.S. Treasury official...
...this isn't your kids' social network. While Facebook became the darling of Silicon Valley in June 2007 when it created a completely open platform for developers - who quickly launched hundreds of thousands of applications - LinkedIn's plan is to carefully and slowly vet everything that goes onto its platform. "We don't want zombies and werewolves and all that," said Reid Hoffman, the brilliant entrepreneur who founded LinkedIn in May 2003, during a particularly bleak part of the dotcom meltdown. He told me that if his social network offered 60 applications a year from now, "we'd be very...
...drastically from current levels. Yet almost all of the subjects in Sterman's study failed to realize that, assuming instead that you could stabilize carbon concentration simply by capping carbon emissions at their current level. That's not the case - and in fact, pursuing such a plan for the future would virtually guarantee that global warming could spin out of control. It may seem to many like good common sense to wait until we see proof of the serious damage global warming is doing before we take action. But it's not - we can't "wait and see" on global...
...Keith Dayton, acting as adviser to the Palestinians - is to persuade skeptical Israelis that Palestinians can ensure security inside the West Bank, a first step in building trust that would allow Israel to turn over control to the Palestinian Authority as part of any peace agreement. So far, the plan has succeeded: The streets are safer for ordinary Palestinians, and Israelis have more confidence in their Palestinian security counterparts. But it's precisely because this unit forms part of a plan to prepare the Palestinians to take control of the area that the Hebron settlers are so vehemently opposed - they...
Only seven months ago, Ma Ying-jeou was elected president of Taiwan by the largest margin of victory in the nation's history, and a big reason was his bold plan for linking Taiwan more closely to China. Ma believes that improved relations with a rapid-growth China will boost the island's own sagging economy. His program also lent hope that tensions could be reduced between Taiwan and China, which still regards Taiwan as a renegade province and claims sovereignty over the island. In a flurry of new policies, Ma opened Taiwan to Chinese tourists and investors and launched...