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...surprisingly the big banks - many of them still nursing their wounds from the subprime meltdown - are eager to embrace this new money-spinner. Institutions like ABN Amro, Merrill Lynch and HSBC have all created structured products built around their own indices: protected offerings, for example, that track an index but give a minimum guaranteed return, or leveraged offerings that amplify gains and losses. They can be used to hedge risks presented by global warming, or simply to bet on the likelihood that cash will continue to cascade into the sector...
...Greengrass isn't alone among serious directors who, when they make an action film, want it to be More Than. Well, forget that. Just get an audience caught up in the Bourne web. Making a good action film is its own conspicuous achievement, and Greengrass is a superb spinner of plates. And conductor of stunts. And car scenes. Bourne runs through three or four each movie - those indestructo-cars that can be rammed and smashed, spun, stripped and flipped and still outrace and outlast all pursuers...
...comic, a black guy spouting one-liners designed to titillate a white audience suddenly attuned to the black outrage they had never before heard. That, however, was not Petey. And he knew it. He could talk fast, all right, but he was at heart a free-associating yarn spinner, a man who had to establish his own rhythms, not live by those of other people. He was never going to be Richard Pryor. Or Nipsey Russell...
...Remanufacturing is such a money spinner because of the low cost of the materials and energy it uses. Materials represent 70% of costs for a new product, but only 40% for a remanufactured one. And because there's less casting and smelting, a particularly power-hungry aspect of production processes, energy costs are up to 85% lower than in manufacturing new products. Consumers benefit, too. Remanufactured goods are equal in quality to new ones, but they're often 50-60% cheaper...
...Misali, a conservation area that protects nesting turtles, reveal some of the most spectacular marine life in the world, with everything from surgeonfish to fairy basslets teeming amid mountains of unspoiled coral. If you rise early and take a short boat ride around Pemba, you might glimpse breaching spinner dolphins. Dry land's no less rewarding. Whether sipping a Pemba punder, a local vodka cocktail, at the side of the pool (exorcised for just two goats and a skinny cow) or savoring sunset cocktails at the jetty bar, the only spirits you'll be in touch with are the distilled...