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...longtime enemies - an area where animals such as the endangered Siberian tiger and Amur leopard are known to exist. Van Riet says there is some interest in the idea at the U.S. Defense Department. If the generals of the Pentagon and their counterparts in the two Koreas are as wise as the tiger and the leopard, then peace may have a chance...
...students from the College and other schools, and reached into many of Harvard's nooks and crannies for ideas. Committee members interviewed the presidents and other high-level administrators of other Ivy League institutions, faculty members at other schools, researchers, government officials, other captains of industry, just about any "wise mind" the committee could find. The committee wanted to know where Harvard's major problems lay, what the new president needed to focus on, and where higher education was heading in the coming decades...
...Think total portfolio. If you'll get more options and you have company stock in a 401(k) plan, it may be wise to cash in early to diversify. If your company isn't exactly on a hot streak, stifle your emotional attachment and cash out of that dog. "Think like an investor," says Mark Sakanashi, co-author of Your Stock Options, to be published in July. Don't buy other stock in your industry if you have ample exposure through options...
...hard-wired cynicism. Naming a group to look at a problem allows presidents to be concerned without being committed. By the time the commission actually reports the issue may have blown over, a new solution may have been found or the complexities of the task will make the wise men and women so flummoxed they can't come up with an answer. (This Social Security Big Think is the eighth of such beasts. Only one has actually changed policy...
...Vice President, coal is certainly the most plentiful domestic resource that we have and by some accounting measures it's also one of the cheaper ones. How does coal fit into your plan, and is it wise, considering the environmental problems associated with coal and the years that it could take for clean coal technology to solve the problem, to have a big role for coal, if that's what...