Q&A with the jewelry seller’s CEO, Michael J. Kowalski Most businesses hungrily pursue new sources of vital raw materials. Tiffany & Co., by contrast, has begun to forge a different path. In the last several years, the company has taken…
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Challenging a Landmark Theory of Biodiversity | environment:YALE
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By Adam Aston What does a court full of towering collegiate basketball players have in common with a forest full of vertiginous trees? For legions of basketball fans, the answer may not go beyond height. But for ecologists who study…
Book review – “The World Without Us” By Alan Weisman | BusinessWeek
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Save The Planet: Disappear — Weisman presents a curiously refreshing vision of the apocalypse THE WORLD WITHOUT US By Alan Weisman. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press — 324pp — $24.95 The extinction of humankind is a grim topic. Yet in The World…