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...West. Walker fears that China, in its efforts to support growth and the millions employed in export factories, will eventually allow the yuan to depreciate, forcing all other Asian countries to do the same to keep their exports competitive. "If conditions do worsen, then every lever in the Chinese toolkit will be pulled" to muster a recovery, Walker says. Michael Hartnett, an international strategist at Merrill Lynch, recently told TIME that his potential big "surprise" for the world economy in 2009 is a surge of cheap exports from China, "causing some flare-up in terms of protectionism...
...idea of greener - and cheaper - health is catching on fast among health-care CEOs. Some 150 registered health-care industry construction projects currently underway - involving about 30 million sq. ft. of new building space - have pledged to adopt the Green Guide for Health Care (GGHC), a sustainable design toolkit developed in part by HCWH, which helps the health-care sector construct healthier buildings from the start, according to Cohen. For example, the guide suggests ways to maintain indoor air quality, as indoor pollution can cause or aggravate many health conditions and threaten the well-being of patients with compromised immune...
...Moskovitz announced earlier this month that he was leaving the social networking Web site to found a new Internet company with fellow Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein. The new company will develop “an extensible enterprise productivity suite, along with a high-level open-source software development toolkit,” according to a note posted on Rosenstein’s Facebook profile. “We hope our products will become to your work life what Facebook.com is to your social life,” Rosenstein wrote in the note. Moskovitz, who founded Facebook in Feb. 2004 with...
...Elsevier’s managing director of journal publishing, Martin Tanke, said that Elsevier also launched PERK, a publishing ethics toolkit for journal editors, and a reference tool to strengthen the peer review process...
Armed with the Emergency Toolkit, workers go into crises with a clear sense of their role within the team and an understanding of how a given problem should be solved step-by-step. "If an I.T. shop goes down, they know how to recover it," says Patrick Solomon, CARE's senior vice president of global support services. "This manual helps prepare people so they can handle anything they might face...