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...Given the growth prospects, these new trends in food and agriculture promise an array of enticing investment opportunities. But there are plenty of risks when it comes to agriculture. The threats of droughts, floods, pests and overproduction go with the territory?and their effects are often particularly dire in emerging nations. In addition, the weather in such countries tends to be more extreme because many of them are in tropical or near-tropical locations. But the long-term trend is clear: as the middle class in emerging markets grows and prospers, nutritional habits will continue to change?and that should...
...plan to work, VW must figure out how to act nimbly. It has a long history of drifting from profitable years to lean ones. Instead of following up hits from the '90s like the New Beetle and Passat, the Germans were either late or missed virtually every automotive trend: hybrids, crossovers, small SUVs. VW got so out of touch with U.S. consumers that in 2005 the company sent a group of employees, dubbed the Moonraker team, to the U.S. to spend a year figuring out what Americans wanted in a car. The answer: models designed specifically for this market...
Women comprised only 21 percent of the academics who accepted tenure-track offers to join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) last year, a startling reversal of a three-year trend that saw that figure rise to 40 percent in 2004-2005.It’s too soon to tell whether the sheer one-year drop, identified in the first annual FAS report on diversity, represents an anomaly or the start of a new trend. But the finding raises a flag for FAS as it works to increase gender diversity in a faculty where less than 19 percent...
Following the recent trend of jazz re-releases, the newly released Weather Report box set “Forecast: Tomorrow” includes over three hours of their best tracks squeezed onto three discs as well as a newly discovered two-hour DVD from a German TV station that captures the group in concert in 1978 with the astoundingly energetic Jaco Pastorius on electric bass...
Despite the College’s recent efforts to improve the undergraduate experience, members of the Class of 2006 said that overall, they were less than satisfied with their advising and social experiences. This continues a three-year trend of dissatisfaction among undergraduates...