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...Balance sheet? CPA? Regional expert? Since when do such things really matter in the boardroom? Since Enron and Tyco and WorldCom. Munoz is one of a new breed of director that just might change corporate governance permanently and for the better. The corporate scandals of the past few years have inspired a flurry of strict new government and industry rules on board composition and responsibility. These rules could do much to dismantle the old-boy, do-little director network--in other words, to make directors work for their money...
...businesses will begin diving for cover. John Dutton, dean emeritus of the Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, estimates that $2.7 trillion of the $10 trillion U.S. economy is susceptible to weather-related loss of revenue, meaning that an enormous number of companies have "off balance sheet" risks related to climate. This could wound corporate America in a lot of ways, particularly as insurance companies discover this new area of risk...
...peppered with exclamation points: Go to the gym three times a week! Call parents more often! Get more sleep! Eat more healthily! The paper was still as clean as next month’s calendar page. The list reminded me of nothing so much as the cardboard-and-bed-sheet boat in the New Year’s Eve parade, that other embodiment of the promise of a new year untainted by cynicism or disappointment. Before long the cardboard would succumb to the rain and wilt; before long my blockmate would stay up too late, eat unhealthily, neglect her parents...
Other factors affect the ice sheet's stability. One of the most important is the balance between the rate at which the ice sheet is growing (because of snowfall) and the rate at which it is shrinking. An ice sheet is, in essence, a viscous plateau, and under the burden of its own weight it is ever so slowly sliding downhill. Because of variations in underlying terrain, however, its slide is not uniform. In the Ross Sea sector, for example, ice is most efficiently conveyed out of the ice sheet's interior by ice streams, which spill onto the Ross...
...still do not know precisely what caused the warming or how Antarctica responded. One group argues that during this time significant expanses of the White Continent were not merely ice free but covered with low-lying, tundra-type vegetation. But Marchant and his colleagues contend that the vast ice sheet that covers the Antarctic plateau rode out the temperature rise unperturbed...