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...don’t know anything about how [Thomson Reuters] does this,” Feldstein wrote in an e-mail. “These are low probability events. It’s flattering to be on the list but even if it comes to pass it would not affect my research.” Professor Roy J. Glauber, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, also expressed some skepticism about any Nobel predictions since no selection details are released. “I very much doubt that anyone has inside information because the committees involved are sworn...
...something cute and it blew up in his or her face, they would be stuck with a bankrupt company. On the other hand, we have companies here, Steris, Lincoln Electric, Lubrizol - just the three of them employ 2,400 people. When will this mess trickle down and affect those companies, and start affecting moms and dads whose kids are trying to go to college or get a car loan...
Higher education experts are also concerned that the high cost of a major federal bailout package could affect discretionary spending on student aid and research funding...
...business-news layman, I follow these issues fairly closely, especially as they affect consumer areas like the housing market. (I even wrote a TIME cover story in 2005 on America's obsession with home prices - with considerable help from our business staff - so it's not like I was unaware of the housing bubble and home-lending spree...
...associate director at Harvard Medical School’s Division on Addictions, said he questioned such reports because “very few people are prosecuted or put in jail for possession of marijuana alone.” Brownsberger also voiced concerns about how the decriminalization measure would affect college campuses. “I think it would become a very real problem in many colleges where some students choose to smoke and some students don’t want any part of it,” Brownsberger said. “The students who don’t want...