The map from July 22, 2010, (PDF file) shows that on the day this image was taken from the ISS (July 23, 2010), the north edge of the “oiled” zone was expected to bank up against the Delta.

In 1995 the firm that had advised on so many cutting-edge takeovers itself fell prey to Swiss Bank Corporation, for a fraction of what it would have fetched a few years earlier.

Yet the First National Bank of Namibia, which bought the computer, is at the leading edge of a trend.