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...companies has started to seep out into some of the nation's largest corporations. Companies from Microsoft to Eli Lilly and Hewlett-Packard are bringing the market inside, with workers trading futures contracts on such "commodities" as sales, product success and supplier behavior. The concept: a work force contains vast amounts of untapped, useful information that a market can unlock. "Markets are likely to revolutionize corporate forecasting and decision making," says Robin Hanson, an economist at George Mason University, in Virginia, who has researched and developed markets. "Strategic decisions, such as mergers, product introductions, regional expansions and changing CEOs, could...
...Americans took some time to live outside the cultural bubble of the United States, our foreign policy priorities would be very different. While many Europeans are accustomed to international travel, a very small minority of Americans even have a passport. And while most Europeans consider multilingualism essential, the vast majority of Americans are lost without English. Europeans tend to be familiar with the politics in neighboring countries, yet only a minority of Americans can even name the capital of Canada, let alone its leader...
...years of operation, the number of countries where polio remains a chronic problem has fallen from 125 to just six: Egypt, Niger, Nigeria, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. (In all of Asia, just 34 cases were reported in the first six months of the year.) But a vast and unstinting effort is required to achieve and maintain those results. In Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, the WHO works with governments and UNICEF to coordinate immunization drives involving thousands of local health workers and volunteers. Every six weeks, they fan out through cities and villages, each worker carrying a thermos of vaccine vials...
...tailored to his pursuits: a study where he maintained voluminous correspondence (even using a machine called a polygraph to copy letters as he wrote them); a collection of scientific instruments for studying the weather and the stars; a greenhouse for cultivating new plants; and, most important, space for his vast library...
...ARGUED BEFORE THE COURT AGAINST THE CURRENT CAMPAIGN-FINANCE LAW. ARE YOU DISTURBED BY THE VAST SUMS STILL BEING SPENT ON THIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE...