Twitter Rundown for Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Citigroup’s Shareholder Revolt Reverberates On Wall Street
Now that Citigroup’s shareholders have rejected the CEO’s pay package the firm says it will listen to what its shareholders are saying. But will the rest of Wall Street?
Massachusetts Firm Turns To Chinese Courts Over Stolen Technology
Massachusetts-based wind turbine designer American Superconductor Corporation is suing in Chinese courts after their Chinese manufacturing partner Sinovel started using stolen AMSC technology to make its own turbines.
Teen Raps About Financial Responsibility
Sophomore Syretha Shirley won a contest for her song about using a debit card instead of a credit card and resisting pressure to buy expensive items.
Military Analyst Bing West Ponders Road Ahead In Afganistan
Bing West looks at the U.S. role in Afghanistan as American officials do damage control after gruesome photos surfaced of American soldiers posing with the corpses of dead insurgents.
Author Ron Rash Delves Into North Carolina History For ‘The Cove’
Ron Rash’s new novel is set in North Carolina in the waning days of World War I– Read an excerpt.
Kelly Frey, the editor of Oklahoma’s big daily newspaper The Oklahoman, is from El Reno, Okla. and describes what it’s like to grow up in “tornado alley.”
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Are home-based shelters really enough to hold back an F5 category tornado, which can have winds upwards of 300 miles per hour? And what about people who don’t have home-based shelters?
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