Last December, e-mails written by climate scientists raised suspicion of scientific misconduct and conspiracy. International investigations have since exonerated the scientists of accusations of manipulating data. New York Times contributor Andrew Revkin explains what happened.
Airships were once the giants of the skies. They were soaring before the airplane and were used as the first strategic bombers in World War I. What happened? Blimp technology has come a long way since the Hindenburg. Ira Flatow and guests discuss airships of the past and future.
AP – Rep. Henry Waxman says BP officials provided conflicting accounts of what happened after an oil well didn’t pass a negative pressure test hours before its rig exploded.
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Rep. Waxman: conflicting accounts from BP on test
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Reuters – The sharp fragmentation of the U.S. stock marketplace — seen as a cause of last week’s mysterious market dive — is also slowing down regulators’ ability to piece together what happened, two sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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Market fragmentation delaying stock swoon probe
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AP – WHAT HAPPENED: Stocks plunged on news that the Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil charges against Goldman Sachs related to the subprime mortgage market.
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Goldman Sachs news punctures stock market’s rally
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U.S. News & World Report – Ignore, for just a second, the recently concluded decade’s two bull markets and two recessions. Forget, if even for just an instant, everything that happened throughout the course of the topsy-turvy decade we just emerged from. Because once you filter out all the noise–as preposterous of a task as that may be–something curious happens: By one measure, we’re right back where we started in 2000.
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A Cyclical Decade for Mutual Funds
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Reuters – A top U.S. securities regulator said some funds may now view insider trading as a central tenet of their business models, rather than as a one-time opportunity for big rewards as sometimes happened in the 1980s.
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SEC sees evolution in insider trading
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A 0.4 percent decline in Britain’s gross domestic product in the third quarter means the U.K.’s economy has now shrunk for six consecutive quarters — something that the BBC says hasn’t happened since that country began keeping such records in 1955.
Diplomats from many nations walked out Wednesday when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. On more than one occasion, Ahmadinejad has questioned whether the Holocaust happened. NPR’s Steve Inskeep spoke to the Iranian president. Inskeep discusses the interview.
There was a time when Colombia refused to extradite suspected drug traffickers to the U.S. These days, critics say Colombia is extraditing too many minor players in the drug trade. So minor that some have spent just a few months in a U.S. jail before being shipped back home. That’s what happened to two banana vendors caught up in a drug investigation.
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