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MARYLAND MESS The iconic blue crab has had a tough year. As the Chesapeake's season comes to an end, scientists expect one of the lowest harvests in more than 60 years as a result of pollution and catch allowances that may be too permissive for a population in severe decline. The bay was home to 852 million crabs in 1993, but now there are only 273 million...
...technology has always been Sharp's strength. It was the first company to mass-produce the LCD calculator, and has been a leader in displays for gadgets like cell phones, camcorders and portable videogame consoles. But Sharp's success in the flat-screen world is the result of its willingness to marry elegant design to its technical skill by using teams that broke the rules of traditional Japanese business...
...November by professing to see risk of "generalized meltdown of the financial system of a severity and magnitude like we have never observed before." That sounds bad. But even if the damage is restricted to U.S. mortgage markets, a $2 trillion reduction in the supply of loans could still result, estimates Goldman Sachs economist Jan Hatzius...
Smith applies the same kind of arithmetic and discipline to his personal life, and as a result, he enjoys a Hollywood rarity: a stable 10-year marriage. "Our first official date was with a relationship counselor," he says. "The math of it is simple. Start while it's good. Do it three times a week while you're laughing and still having fun. You get so much more work done. You head off problems. Do it during the ether time, and do it aggressively. There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every...
Last week, the town of Dardenne Prairie, Mo., made it a crime to use the Internet to make another person feel bad about himself. The measure is the result of an incident in October 2006 in which a girl named Megan Meier committed suicide, purportedly because she was subject to a series of insults and attacks from people she had befriended on the “social networking” site MySpace. The attacks were orchestrated by the mother of one of Megan’s ex-friends. This infantile woman created a false account, claiming...