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...difficult to gauge, experts say its reputation as a reliable institution has taken a beating. "Clients worldwide have lost trust in UBS's ability to protect their privacy," says Teodoro Cocca, former professor of asset and wealth management at the Swiss Banking Institute in Zurich. "This will affect UBS's attraction for wealthy clients - the main franchise of the bank...
...Seneca, an all-female student organization whose mission, according to its Web site, includes “promot[ing] discourse and awareness of issues that affect women," met with a UHS liaison in the fall to discuss a possible continuation of the subsidy...
...While speculators affect the market in both directions, commercial participants tend to put upward pressure on prices. If airlines fully hedged themselves in the futures market, the price of oil would jump enormously. The futures market cannot support hedging for energy, let alone for other things; for example, investors might buy oil to hedge against losses in other investments, like stocks. With speculators out of the market, an airline's hedge would have an even bigger impact, further raising the global price...
...Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and one of three lead authors of the study. But he and his colleagues were prompted to test the aging effects of rapamycin, which was discovered in Easter Island soil samples about 40 years ago, after noting that the compound appeared to affect cell growth in lab animals in much the same way as calorie-restricted diets, which also appear to extend life. (Watch TIME's video "Mapping New York City's Rats...
...this cellular efficiency, perhaps, that delays aging and helps preserve animals' good health. The findings suggest that rapamycin does not affect or prevent any one disease specifically - the mice in the study died of various causes, with no real difference between mice that received rapamycin and those that didn't - but rather that it slows aging overall. (Read a TIME cover story on the science of aging...