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...rather be thinking about big problems that affect a large number of people, rather than sitting behind a desk writing code for some boring software package...
...might not think that a multibillion-dollar deal between two European banks would affect your own (considerably more modest) financial situation. But it just might. Thursday, Germany's Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank announced plans to join in a "merger of equals" to form Deutsche Bank AG. The new company's total assets will be valued at a jaw-dropping $1.3 trillion, making it one of the largest financial institutions in the world. Not surprisingly, those profits won't be scraped together from the holdings of the average Helmut's personal bank account; the merger announcement included a plan...
...slaves manumitted in 1800 and those of slaves freed only after the Civil War? The growing population of biracial Americans further complicates the question. Would someone with one grandparent descended from slaves receive one quarter of the payment received by another whose ancestors were all slaves? How would reparations affect a person descended equally from slaves and slaveowners...
...Even if it's something that doesn't affect you personally, it helps to see it through someone else's eyes who you know and go to class with," she said...
...current issue of Nature, they report that warming the front of the tongue induces a suggestion of sweetness, and cooling it produces a salty or sour taste; chilling the back of the tongue, by contrast, creates a sour or bitter sensation. No one knows if these false taste sensations affect flavor, but experts suspect they are too faint for the brain to discern in the sensory din of a mouthful of well-seasoned food...