Each summer, horseshoe crabs ( Limulus polyphemus ) along the Atlantic shore crawl onto beaches to mate and lay eggs — making now a good time for marine scientists like John Tanacredi to monitor population size. Science Friday visits a New York beach to catch a glimpse of the action.
AP – The financial reform bill awaiting a Senate vote offers protection from the “anything goes” environment that produced the nation’s two-year financial crisis, Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson said Tuesday in urging the measure be adopted.
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BusinessWeek – Some hedge fund managers are famous for big scores — John Paulson made $15 billion shorting the housing market. Then there’s Seth Klarman, who got rich by making money steadily over time. As markets began to collapse in 2008, the founder of Baupost Group focused on corporate bonds he calculated would yield solid returns even if the economy got worse. “We didn’t have the degree of conviction Paulson had,” says Klarman, 53, in an interview in his Boston office. “We don’t deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.”
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The Financial Life: Seth Klarman
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Geology surveys in Afghanistan don’t just rely on the trusty map and hammer. John Brozena of the Naval Research Laboratory discusses how geologists there have mapped mineral deposits from planes carrying various sorts of cameras as well as gravity and magnetic sensors.
In A Mosque in Munich , Pulitzer Prize winner Ian Johnson explains how Western spy-masters recruited ex-Soviet Muslims to be operatives in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union. These Muslims, in turn, created a community where radical Islam could gain a foothold in the heart of Europe.
AP – Congressional investigators said Wednesday that Johnson & Johnson hired a private company which bought up defective packets of pain relievers in 2008 before recalling the pills months later, after prodding from federal regulators.
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Writer John Seabrook was in the process of adopting a baby girl from Haiti when the country was hit by the massive earthquake in January. He writes about his own experience with international adoption — and the history and perils of the practice — in The New Yorker.
Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Irish Bishop John Magee in the country’s sex abuse scandal. The 73-year-old Magee has been accused of mishandling complaints against priests in his diocese of Cloyne.
The Gruyere from cheesemaker Cedric Fragniere in Kirchberg, Switzerland, was crowned best cheese at the World Championship Cheese Contest. John Jaeggi, the cheese industry and applications program coordinator for the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, discusses what makes a top cheese.
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