Monday, February 25, 2002
• In 1994, corporate taxes paid for almost 80 percent of the $1.2 billion Superfund program.
By 2003, taxpayers will kick in $700 million of a $1.3 billion fund.
It is dramatically realigning the purpose of the program, which was to ensure that polluters pay. Taxpayers are paying more, and fewer sites are being cleaned up.
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Grant Cope, a lawyer with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group on the Bush administration's moves to increase how much of the Superfund program taxpayers finance.
Posted: 11:40 PM
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Sunday, February 24, 2002
My hunch is that most decisions are made subconsciously with many gradations of awareness. For example, I'm vaguely aware of how I got to work this morning. But consciousness seems reserved for more important things.
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Dr. Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. New neuroscience research indicates that people make up to 90 percent of their decisions each day with their brain essentially on auto-pilot.
Posted: 11:58 PM
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I know McDonald's isn't poison. Nobody can say that these foods in reasonable quantities are bad. Hamburgers have nutrients; milkshakes have nutrients, but they are very high in calories. And people don't even notice this eat-more message is here. That's what troubles me.
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Marion Nestle, head of NYU's department of nutrition and food studies. Besides pushing processed foods, the food industry also promotes overeating, she contends.
Posted: 11:46 PM
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Tuesday, February 12, 2002
If there is a creative bone in your body, it's hard not to look at the Macintosh and not feel something tingle -- which is precisely what Apple is counting on. Because while Windows is good at many things, if what you do is create something visual -- be it digital photography, Web pages, magazines, television, film, or anything else -- the Mac is your platform.
Posted: 11:49 PM
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Thursday, February 07, 2002
For the republic, is it better policy to let 10 or 15 percent of society have the freedom to do more for themselves than it is to use that money to make sure 50 percent of society doesn't get worse off?
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Kim Wallace, a political analyst for Lehman Brothers framing the debate over national spending priorities.
Posted: 7:47 AM
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Tuesday, February 05, 2002
But if a company goes for a higher margin and that causes a decay in its basic business, then management is making a mistake.
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Henry Berghoef, a portfolio manager at Harris Associates, in a piece by Rick Edmonds about institutional investors in newspaper companies.
Posted: 10:48 PM
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