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...pictures of wild weather around the world...
...climate change conference was obviously a waste of time. World leaders have obviously - or conveniently - forgotten the meaning of the word consequence. But isn't it strange that the worst weather in decades to hit Europe and the eastern U.S. occurred immediately after the conference? Could this not be a message to those same world leaders? Ian Vincent, NAIROBI
...somewhat if you are bleeding or, it turns out, peeing. By comparison, the chances of drowning during a visit to the beach are just 1 in 2 million. And the chances of being struck by lightning in any given year are 1 in 500,000, according to the National Weather Service - a risk that narrows to 1 in 6,250 over an 80-year lifetime. Four people died in shark attacks in the U.S. from 2004 to '08; during the same period, the National Weather Service estimates, 2,700 Americans were struck by lightning...
While many lucky students are enjoying climates far from frozen Cambridge, the wintry weather is causing some trouble for the Lampoon...
...Earnings gains may make for good financial headlines but they don't necessarily reflect the growth of the underlying business. Indeed, most companies have just wrapped up a year of dismal quarterly results where many slashed jobs and other expenses to weather the debilitating recession and frozen credit markets. Thus, the near-term earnings may look much improved even though demand for a company's products may have slumped. "Cost-cutting has been the major force driving earnings and earnings surprises," says Dirk Van Dijk, chief equity strategist at Zacks Investment Research, which monitors earnings projections from Wall Street analysts...