Turmoil in the oil-rich Middle East, combined with the nuclear crisis in Japan, has caused a lot of experts to recalculate the global energy algorithm for the future. But people need energy now, and with the ravenous economic growth of China, India and Brazil, demand has grown even more urgent
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Bone Marrow Transplants: When Race Is an Issue
It started out as an average April day, but as Dermot Tatlow drove home, he received a call that would lead to a global campaign to save his son’s life.
Flight 253 and the Missed Signs of Terrorism
The 23-year-old son of a banker from Nigeria should have tripped every alarm in the global aviation-security system put in place after 9/11: He bought a $2,831 ticket for flights from Lagos to Amsterdam to Detroit and paid for it in cash. He left no contact information with the airline
Kevin O’Leary, TV’s ‘Shark Tank’ Guru: In Real Life, No Business Whiz
Kevin O’Leary stars on ABC’s new business reality show Shark Tank as one of five executives who vet business ideas pitched by would-be entrepreneurs. O’Leary often delivers the harshest of the business critiques
Finland’s Educational Success? The Anti-Tiger Mother Approach
Spring may be just around the corner in this poor part of Helsinki known as the Deep East, but the ground is still mostly snow-covered and the air has a dry, cold bite. In a clearing outside the Kallahti Comprehensive School, a handful of 9-year-olds are sitting back-to-back, arranging sticks, pinecones, stones and berries into shapes on the frozen ground.
Fish Farming’s Growing Dangers
In her book Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappe argued more than 35 years ago that grain-fed cattle were essentially “reverse protein factories” because they required many more pounds of plant protein to produce a pound of flesh. Now there’s a similar dynamic in the global fish farming, or aquaculture, industry — especially as it strains to satisfy consumers’ voracious appetite for top-of-the-food chain, carnivorous fish, such as salmon, tuna and shrimp.
Ivory Coast Braces for Civil War as Violence Escalates
At least 52 civilians have been killed in the past week amid escalating violence instigated by an authoritarian President who refuses to heed the will of his people.
China Dreams
Roughly three decades ago, rising Japan was a national obsession in the U.S. Business gurus like Peter Drucker were declaring Japan “the most extraordinary success story in all economic history,” and the U.S.
Should You Put Your Savings in a Chinese Bank Account?
In January, The Bank of China quietly announced a startling new bank account available to U.S.
A Brief History of Waffles
Thanks to a flooded plant in Atlanta and a broken bakery in Tennessee, Kellogg Co.