Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/mongabay.rss Furl archive. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:00:13 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/11122813/forward http://www.furl.net/item/11122813 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:59:08 GMT General Mr. Brune is executive director of the Rainforest Action Network, a scrappy group of liberal activists who combine anticorporate guerrilla tactics with high-level corporate engagement to achieve some surprising results. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/10586761/forward http://www.furl.net/item/10586761 Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:50:59 GMT General Karl Ulrich, a Wharton professor of operations and information management, decided to sign on anyway. He and 41 of his students have created a company called TerraPass that applies Kyoto-like methods to cutting pollution from cars. The firm, which began doing business in the fall of 2004, tries to use the market to solve pollution problems, thereby putting it at the forefront of a recent movement toward market-based environmentalism. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/10393582/forward http://www.furl.net/item/10393582 Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:42:00 GMT General Segregate business and personal risks. Place businesses, including family businesses, inside a corporate shell such as a limited-liability company or a family limited partnership. If creditors go after your company because of a business problem, they will have a hard time taking any personal assets. • Buy "umbrella insurance." One of the first lines of defense is to shift your risks to another entity, such as an insurance company. Umbrella insurance protects assets from personal-injury claims above the liability limits set by standard-issue home or auto policies. • Maximize state exemptions. The laws governing protection of assets such as homes and insurance policies vary by state. In Florida and Texas, you can transfer your wealth into your home (building an addition, say, or paying off a mortgage), life insurance policy, annuity or retirement plan, all of which are generally exempt from creditors. In some states, married couples can title their property in a special way called "tenancy by the entirety," which can make it tough to reach for a creditor of one spouse. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/7770924/forward http://www.furl.net/item/7770924 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:51:36 GMT General TIP SHEET: A DINER'S GUIDE Sushi experts say consumers can do several things to ensure that they eat the good stuff: NEVER ON SUNDAY: Most restaurants do not receive fresh fish on the weekend, so it is certain to be less fresh than on other days. In some places, Monday is even worse. NEATNESS COUNTS: Look in the sushi case at the bar. If pieces aren't wrapped and are touching one another or the sides of the case, says Sushi Sasabune chef Nobi Kusuhara, "they aren't really taking care of the fish very well." EXPECT VARIETY: Offerings that change according to the season usually mean the chef takes pride in his selections. GOOD LOOKS: Fresh fish will look shiny. Tuna should not be dark or too red. "When the color is red, almost as if it's been painted, ask if it has been smoked," says Mr. Kasuhara. If so, "it won't taste good and could be spoiled inside." FOLLOW THE CROWDS: Unpopular restaurants may not have enough turnover to have fresh fish. SAY NO TO SPICY SUSHI ROLLS: The spices are often intended to disguise inferior fish. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/6134870/forward http://www.furl.net/item/6134870 Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:29:49 GMT General 3 http://www.furl.net/item/4507064/forward http://www.furl.net/item/4507064 Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:19:04 GMT Science 3 http://www.furl.net/item/4442331/forward http://www.furl.net/item/4442331 Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:37:35 GMT General 3 http://www.furl.net/item/4291781/forward http://www.furl.net/item/4291781 Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:37:46 GMT General An Australian inventor believes he can turn human waste into an energy source. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/4132994/forward http://www.furl.net/item/4132994 Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:57:11 GMT General German and Malagasy primatologists have discovered two new species of lemurs, naming one of them after Steve Goodman, a Field Museum scientist who has devoted nearly two decades to studying the animals of Madagascar 3 http://www.furl.net/item/4128771/forward http://www.furl.net/item/4128771 Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:19:10 GMT General A new study published in the current issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that poison dart frogs, as well as the Mantella poison frogs of Madagascar, derive their toxicity from the ants they eat. Specifically, both groups are frogs are capable of storing ants' toxic alkaloid molecules in their glands without being harmed. Ants either synthesize these alkaloids themselves or acquire them from the plants on which they feed 3