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...that month, according to Nielsen - more than double what it attracted a year ago. It gets a million-plus comments from readers a month. A business newswire recently valued the site at more than $90 million. Only one independently held online-content company (Nick Denton's Gawker properties) is worth more...
...Mosquito Coast In return for oil, natural gas, timber, hydropower, gemstones, cash crops and a periodic table's worth of minerals, countries like China, India, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea are propping up - and massively enriching - Burma's top brass. In the first nine months of 2008, foreign investment in Burma almost doubled year on year to nearly $1 billion, according to government figures that don't even take into account significant underground economic activity. Burma today is estimated to produce 90% of the world's rubies by value, 80% of its teak, and is home to one of Asia...
...would give executives reason to keep a close eye on risks being taken elsewhere in their companies. Yeah, there are complications - the main one being that lots of highly paid employees of AIG, Citigroup and the like are overseas and not subject to U.S. taxes. But it's worth a try. If nothing else, it would give the outraged American electorate the sense that the responsible parties are paying for something closer to their fair share of the financial bailout. Which would allow us all to get back to the Important Things that Larry Summers and Tim Geithner...
Before we criticize, we should look at the ends. This is politics; if different means transform the end (and, in the real world, this means winning or losing elections), it’s worth it to alter our tactics...
...schedule a meeting in your neighborhood? Just try to get friends to venture north and watch as their faces contort in disbelief. Have an hour between classes? Two hours? Three? You’ll be spending a good amount of time playing the “is it worth it?” game in your head and probably miss the shuttle doing it. Forget to bring your notes to section in half an hour? Guess you’ll be taking a vow of silence...