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...only a maybe-candidate ostensibly free of having to measure the political effect of his views, Powell claims to be enjoying a rare moment of freedom: "I can now say exactly what I believe." Well, yes, in the midst of the conservative drift, Powell has indeed expressed some strong opinions. On race relations, he has forthrightly confirmed the obvious: "The playing field isn't level. Some forms of affirmative action are still needed." On welfare, Powell is almost alone in worrying about the kids who'll suffer when their mothers' benefits are cut. But overall, Powell has said...
...professor at Harvard Business School: "Everyone knew at the time NCR was a third- or fourth-rate computer company, but somehow AT&T thought they could put it together and there'd be all this synergy." Charles Exley, who quit as NCR's CEO the day the merger took effect, chose not to crow about the results of Allen's folly. Says Exley, who now sails the world on his yacht: "Perhaps now NCR can go about its business once again...
Unless the world takes immediate and drastic steps to reduce the emissions of heat-trapping gases, says the panel, the so-called greenhouse effect could drive global temperatures up as much as 6 degrees F by the year 2100--an increase in heat comparable to the warming that ended the last Ice Age and with perhaps equally profound effects on climate. Huge swaths of densely populated land could be inundated by rising seas. Entire ecosystems could vanish as rainfall and temperature patterns shift. Droughts, floods and storms could become more severe. Says Michael Oppenheimer, a senior scientist with the Environmental...
...invited him to test some of his theories about the importance of optimism in people's success. When optimists fail, he has found, they attribute the failure to something they can change, not some innate weakness that they are helpless to overcome. And that confidence in their power to effect change is self-reinforcing. Seligman tracked 15,000 new workers who had taken two tests. One was the company's regular screening exam, the other Seligman's test measuring their levels of optimism. Among the new hires was a group who flunked the screening test but scored as "superoptimists...
These are all worst-case scenarios, and the report's authors acknowledge that plenty of uncertainties remain in their analysis. For example, as the world warms up, it should get cloudier; depending on what sort of clouds predominate, their shadows could offset the warming effect. And nobody knows how the deep ocean currents--which play a major but still murky role in world climate, channeling heat from one part of the globe to another--would respond to global warming...