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...utterly crazy the way their residential peers did. Commercial lenders still demanded down payments and evidence of income. They didn't factor in a 40% decline in prices or the worst economic downturn in 70 years. The housing bust preceded and precipitated the recession. The commercial bust is an aftereffect. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...people who did do science to ask a new kind of question. Some scientific revolutions have surprisingly small ideological aftershocks; Michael Faraday's discovery that electricity and magnetism are the same thing was as large a discovery as any in the history of science, but it had a paltry aftereffect...For a new scientific theory to become a model in its time, vastly influential outside its immediate claims, it has to release thinking people from a bond that they had long recognized as too narrow and help them interrogate the world...
...Getting a good night's sleep is an ordeal for 70 million Americans. Medications like Ambien can help, but because they target neurons in the brain that control both wakefulness and muscle relaxation, sometimes they work too well, leaving you groggy the next morning. Neurocrine's Indiplon avoids that aftereffect by selectively targeting just the nerve receptors in the brain that regulate sleep. Patients using Indiplon were able to fall asleep within 15 minutes and sleep an average of an hour longer than those taking other sleep aids. The company, which expects to hear by May whether the FDA will...
...would like to amplify my comments on the RU 486 method of abortion. Research compiled by the American Psychological Association shows that for most women the major psychological aftereffect of abortion is relief and that very few women experience any serious psychological difficulties with abortion. It is possible that of the minority of women who have serious emotional reactions after their abortions, some portion of mifepristone [RU 486] patients may have difficulty confronting the products of conception. However, the experience of mifepristone patients in both Europe and the U.S. clinical trials suggests a high degree of satisfaction with this method...
...home. The boy fell out. A buggy wheel ran over his head and inflicted a deep cut. "I must have been in shock," Nixon recalled later, "but I managed to get up and run after the buggy while my mother tried to make the horse stop." The only aftereffect, Nixon said, was a scar, and that was why he combed his hair straight back instead of parting it on the side...