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...measure and work to minimize their carbon footprint, even reporting their efforts in publications like the Carbon Disclosure Project. In part, that's because CEOs are simply greener today than they've ever been, but also because, with a new President in the White House promising carbon cap-and-trade legislation and the world working to negotiate a broader successor to the Kyoto Protocol, smart companies know that managing carbon will soon become a fiduciary responsibility. "[Executives] who don't will soon go way," says Makower. "This is now the price of doing business...
There are a lot of reasons. Currency manipulations by the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans. They've not enforced NAFTA or the trade laws. And the fact we don't have national health insurance...
...murders are part of a disturbing trend. Hong Kong, a city of 6.9 million, saw 36 murders last year, twice as many as in 2007. Six of the 36 were sex workers. In a particularly gruesome incident in May, 2008, a 16-year-old girl involved in sex trade was decapitated, flayed, chopped into pieces, and dumped at a local market where meat was sold. "We are very frightened of this dangerous situation," says Jade, a 40-year-old Hong Kong prostitute who declined to give her last name. "We don't know why these people want to kill...
...plan to work, private investors and the government will have to agree what these loans are worth. "Many of the institutions that bought these deals didn't understand them fully," says Barry Silbert, chief executive of SecondMarket, which helps investors buy and sell hard to trade assets. "It is going to be very hard for the government to come in and try to pack up these opaque assets and ship them off to investors." (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...Michael Levi, a proliferation expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, says Khan himself is not a threat. As a private Pakistani citizen, he will not have the access to sensitive technology and facilities, and Levi believes the networks Khan once ran to trade nuclear secrets have largely been smashed. "He can't enable proliferation simply with the ideas in his head," says Levi...