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Enron executives steered the company’s funds into a series of complicated tax shelters to inflate its profit reports while at the same time evading tax obligations through a dizzying manipulation of the tax code. The scheme collapsed; the top Enron executives were reviled as criminals and subsequently prosecuted. This is how it should...
...problem of how to fit the bases together. Watson kept trying to do it by pairing like with like--an A attached to one backbone linked to an A on the other. Chemically, it would work. The bases were different enough in size and shape, though, that this scheme led to either a gap between bases or misshapen backbones. Worse yet, when Watson happened to show his idea to Jerry Donohue, an American crystallographer doing a stint at the Cavendish, Donohue informed him that the bases came in more than one chemical form. Watson was using the form prescribed...
...More than three outstanding penalties, and a car can be clamped or towed away. Livingstone hopes to slash by 15% the 200,000 cars that come into central London every business day. It's not inconceivable. When the historic cathedral city of Durham (pop. 81,000) implemented a similar scheme with only a €3 charge last October, traffic fell by an astounding 90% and stayed there. Durham's plan may be child's play compared to London: it affects only a half-square-kilometer area and the list of exempt vehicles is lengthy (a mere 100 people are charged...
...themselves only as victims rather than part of the problem. There is, however, one big city where congestion charging has become an accepted part of life: Singapore. Granted, that city also accepts caning. But it's the one comparable model, and the results have been tremendous. A charging scheme has been in place for more than 25 years. Today, each car entering the city center passes by a sensor that reads a "smart card" installed in the dashboard. The charge, which varies from €0.50 to €3 depending on the time of day, is automatically deducted. Every three months...
...Some cities help make the ride even easier. In Trondheim, Norway, for the last 10 years, an electric-powered bike lift has towed 25,000 cyclists a year 130 m up one of its steep hills. And Vienna is keeping faith in its free, help-yourself-to-a-bike scheme: despite having lost hundreds to thieves and vandals last summer, 1,000 cycles will be back on the streets this May. This time, you can borrow one of the Vienna Citybikes free for one hour, using a credit-card swipe as a deposit. CARS First it crawls through your commute...