Yankees need a five-step program
The News Review:
- Yankees need a five-step program
- The filthy truth about diesel ‘mules’
- A Paradox for Poor Nations
- Managed email filtering market hots up
Yankees need a five-step program
SportingNews.com – May 9, 2005
The Yankees’ sweeping lineup changes last week represented their first attempt to salvage the season. Further moves are certain under the ever-patient George Steinbrenner. But as one club official says: “You don’t need a Band-Aid. You need a transplant. “The Yankees’ nucleus of Hall of Fame talent makes a return to contention possible, but the team has so many holes that it might not recover. A little vision would help, starting with a five-part plan:1…
They haven’t drafted and developed a pitcher since Andy Pettitte, whom they selected in the 22nd round in 1990 and signed a year later. Again, the Braves provide a telling contrast. Schuerholz prevents his club from getting too old by regularly mixing in young players; all four Braves starting infielders are home-grown, as is center fielder Andruw Jones. Schuerholz also is effective at using his farm system to acquire players in trades. Don’t trust anyone over 30. The Yankees already are drooling over the approximately $50 million coming off their payroll at the end of the season.
The filthy truth about diesel ‘mules’
New Scientist – New Scientist (subscription) – May 9, 2005
These so-called “Chinese rural vehicles” (CRVs) are often held up as a triumph of appropriate technology. But now it turns out they have a dirty secret. A new survey reveals that they present a worrying environmental problem because of the amount of fuel they consume and the copious emissions they produce. The CRVs are so profligate that they are largely responsible for driving China’s modern thirst for oil.
A Paradox for Poor Nations
Wall Street Journal – Wall Street Journal (subscription) – May 9, 2005
With the possible exception of Tony Tancaktiong, founder of the Jollibee Foods Corp. fast-food chain — a kind of Philippine McDonald’s — few others have joined the country’s wealthy elite in decades. The upshot is that the Philippine economy is unusually shallow in terms of vibrant home-grown commercial enterprises. Electronics parts made here by foreign companies account for 70% of all exports, largely because there are few indigenous products to export except bananas, fish and furniture made from local timber. Former Trade Secretary Cesar Purisima, in an interview before his recent appointment as the Philippines’ finance secretary, says the country’s business culture is flawed. "Traditionally, Filipinos have sought high-paying jobs in banks and corporations rather than setting out on their own," Mr.
Managed email filtering market hots up
Register – May 9, 2005
But the market for managed email filtering developed differently. The US was soon dominated by two of their own home grown vendors Postini and Frontbridge. As the world’s ever growing use of email has now been saved from doom by the efforts of the spam filtering vendors and most businesses have a solution in place, either directly or indirectly via an ISP or other outside service provider, all the email filtering vendors have been trying work out how to keep growing. There are three main options open to them: 1 – Second generation decisions (businesses replacing what their current solution with something better). 2 – Expanding their range of services beyond email filtering. 3 – Move into new geographic territories.