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...risk taking is very much alive. About 500 hedge funds, up from 180 in less than two years, have more than $100 billion at work in the energy sector, says tracker Peter Fusaro, head of Energy and Environmental Capital Management. "We're in the middle of the vortex," he says, pointing to hot economies in Houston and Calgary, Canada. "The bigger issue is--get to know your risks. Enron was the dumbest energy company in the world...
...destroy the administrative institutions on which a two-state solution would be based, and negate 12 years and billions of dollars of investment by the international community in establishing the infrastructure of Palestinian self-rule. Moreover, he suggested, it is sure to plunge Palestinian society deeper into the vortex of poverty - which would make it more fertile ground for just the brand of Islamist extremism that the U.S. is trying to defeat...
...Kurds and the Sunnis, may get their wish - Iraq's Shi'ites could deny Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari a second term in office, enabling the country finally, four months after its most recent election, to form a government. But as Iraq lurches ever more dangerously into a vortex of sectarian and insurgent violence, the idea that simply replacing the incumbent will magically forge a national consensus and reverse Iraq's morbid slide may be more wishful thinking...
...juggle school, homework, sports, music lessons and sleep, I sometimes think my life is easier than theirs. That's partly because I have some tools they lack, but it's also because I think I know an abyss when I see one. Facebook is one giant time vortex--a black hole of chatter--and for many kids it's hard to find an exit. Under its influence, 90 minutes of homework ends up taking four to five hours, says Dr. Alan Goodwin, principal of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md. Those sites are "a huge distraction...
...clapping, and all the crowd laughing.As the evening turned to night, the songs sped, the energy surged. Eyebrows raised up higher on sweat-soaked foreheads when the band began to switch instruments during the second hour of the show.The music started to spiral in the last few songs. The vortex left the dancers so dizzy they could only jump. And just when it felt never-ending, the band rushed off stage, begging an encore and teasing the masses. Not a minute later, to the thundering of a thousand palms, they rushed back on with Dr. Dog (the opening artist...