Archives: As Glaciers Melt, Can Artificial Ones Fill the Gap?

Can artificial glaciers help compensate for the disappearance of naturally forming ones? Scientists and aid agencies are studying communities in mountainous regions of India and Pakistan that have a long tradition of assembling glaciers by grafting together ice and snow masses, reports the New Scientist. In these areas, glaciers serve as a regular and reliable […]

What will buyout firms get in return for not doing a single deal while still charging their investors millions of dollars in management fees?
A round of applause, according to Anthony DiNovi, co-president of THL Partners. Speaking at Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Outlook conference this week, DiNovi said, “A year from now, when I go […]

One of the most popular visualization tools in social media is Digg Spy, which lets you watch as stories get dugg on Digg, constantly scrolling the latest links as they are submitted to or voted on the site. Now Ajaxonomy has created a similar page for bookmarking site Delicious, called del.icio.us Spy.
It shows new […]

Analysts at Birinyi Associates say it would be foolhardy to ignore the elimination of the “uptick” rule, which stated that investors could only execute a short sale when a stock traded higher than its previous sale. This was dumped last summer. “Our concern about this and other changes is that the impact or effect is […]

A quote in this week’s New Yorker has caused quite a stir in an Atlanta murder case. The story, written by staffer Jeff Toobin, concerns the high cost of providing a legal defense for Brian Nichols, who is charged with four murders. In the story, the judge presiding over the case, DeKalb County Superior Court […]

Today’s Career Q&A column in the Journal addresses a reader’s worry about the work-life balance of a firm where she’s interviewing. ” I want to give the impression that I’m committed and will work remotely, while making it clear I’m not willing to be in the office 80 to 100 hours a week,” she writes. […]

Over the next week, as designers present their fall 2008 collections in New York with great fanfare, I’ll be looking for styles that would be a hit in the boardroom, but aren’t necessarily going to appear in fashion spreads. And I’ll also be looking for signs of global warming on the runways.

Will the notoriously […]

Policewomen in Iraq have won back their right to carry guns, although Tina Susman warns in the Los Angeles Times that the victory does little to advance equality in police ranks.
Late last year, she reported on a little-noticed order for policewomen to give up their guns, which Iraqi officials said was necessary to prevent women […]

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Whether the U.S. will experience a recession or not remains uncertain. But technology research firms are already giving tutorials to chief information officers for how to prepare and live through an economic downturn.
Earlier today, Forrester Research held a teleconference to advise CIOs on steps to take in case a recession hits. The […]

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (left) pulled out of the presidential race last night amid a battery of brutal magazine profiles and rage-filled anti-endorsements.
We already know Giuliani wasn’t good for the squeegee-men, but was he good for Wall Street? Well, there’s been better.
We come to that conclusion after looking at that […]