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...unfortunate thing about looking at top performers - besides going back to look at your own statements - is that by the time a company is on fire, the smart money is probably on the way out. As they like to say in the investing business, past performance is no guarantee of future results. All you have to do it take a look at some of last year's biggest percentage gainers to understand that. Solar-panel maker First Solar, which rose more than 700% last year, has lost more than half its value so far in 2008. Fertilizer manufacturer Mosaic, which...
Apple fans had been hoping that Jobs would unveil a "netbook" at the upcoming Macworld, to be held the first week of January. Two years ago, at the same conference, he announced the iPhone, which has become the hottest thing in the computer world. Tens of millions of people will own one by the end of next year; before the recession hit, some analysts predicted that as many as 45 million folks would buy one. (That figure may hold as Apple moves into Wal-Mart at the end of the month.) Even at the current rate, 1 billion applications...
Perhaps the most striking thing about Monday's meeting is simply the change in political tone as a new U.S. Administration prepares to take charge. George W. Bush, throughout his presidency, has been roundly criticized for ignoring, often hindering, science - particularly on climate change, as the President was seen as failing to act against greenhouse-gas emissions long after most U.S. scientists had concluded that global warming was indeed man-made. Many scientists were also dismayed by Bush's ban on funding for most embryonic stem cell research and his endorsement of intelligent design being taught in schools alongside evolution...
...They still don’t believe that it’s a viable option,” she said. “It’s a still a thing where students and families have to be encouraged...
...other matters, our society is stuck—unable to do the right thing even with its striking scientific capacities. HIV, a devastating burden for any country because it produces a generation of orphans, is one area where such failure has been persistent. As late as the 1990’s, half of the World Bank’s AIDS-related projects did not finance or promote condom use. President Bush is continuously derided for his decision to invade Iraq, but the caveat in his large-scale plan for AIDS relief in Africa, which demanded that at least a third...