Word: wising
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...happy to guide you through the whole geek life cycle--from raising capital to planning, executing, innovating, marketing and selling your killer app. He is an avowed enemy of what he calls "bull shiitake" and urges others to wise up fast. Toward that end, he lists the "top lies" of venture capitalists, lawyers, engineers, partners and CEOs. At nearly 500 pages, this tome is obviously not intended for a sitting; rather, dip in and out as the subjects move you. Kawasaki more than meets his stated goal of providing "hardcore information to hardcore people who want to kick...
...hard to imagine a better time to publish a book that advocates moderation, balance and integrity in the business world. In this wise meditation, Bogle, the folk-hero creator of the first index mutual fund and founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group, deplores "our worship of wealth and the growing corruption of our professional ethics but ultimately the subversion of our character and values." Directly in his sights: CEOs and hedge-fund managers who draw "obscene" compensation. At this time of plunging portfolios, it is a relief to be told that "enough" is within reach...
...sway the Dominion 11 from their mission--not the cops and certainly not the prospect of free food. Early on the morning of Sept. 15, activists from a range of environmental groups formed a human barrier to block access to a coal plant being built by Dominion in rural Wise County, Virginia. As acts of civil disobedience go, this wasn't exactly Bloody Sunday. The police took a hands-off approach and even offered to buy the protesters breakfast if they unchained themselves. (They declined.) But the consequences were far from trivial. The activists who had formed the barrier...
...People are willing to put their reputations and their livelihoods and physical well-being on the line for the climate," says Scott Parkin, an organizer for the Rainforest Action Network who has been involved in the Dominion campaign in Virginia. The September protest in Wise County was just the latest in a string of nonviolent acts against Dominion's new coal plant, including a blockade of the company's Richmond headquarters in June...
...coal industry counters that the sheer rise in demand for electricity--projected to increase 30% by 2030, according to the federal Energy Information Agency--means a new generation of coal plants is inevitable. Dominion executives point out that Virginia has a projected shortfall in electricity supply and that the Wise County plant is needed to close that...