Word: alarms
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...spivs" who caused the mess, while union leaders and politicians raised cheers by bashing the rich. Brown's keynote speech talked of a new era that demands heavier regulation, an era in which the rich will "be able to look after themselves." That sort of talk sets off alarm bells. "There is a risk that a mood could emerge, an anti-City mood," says Douglas McWilliams, chief executive of London's Centre for Economics and Business Research. "You sense that now with the Labour Party in a rather weak state, there could be a bit of populism that could actually...
When Banaji, along with cognitive neuroscientist Liz Phelps of New York University, conducted brain scans of subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging, they uncovered the reasons for the results. White subjects respond with greater activation of the amygdala--a region that processes alarm--when shown images of black faces than when shown images of white faces. "One of the amygdala's critical functions is fear-conditioning," says Phelps. "You attend to things that are scary because that's essential for survival." Later studies have shown similar results when black subjects look at white faces...
...offered alongside the latter, it must be on a provisional basis only. While we should hardly resist the chronic adaptation of interests and habits amongst young people, we must simultaneously insist upon the preservation the our more classic literary forms. After all, perhaps there is less cause for alarm than a few among us might suggest; perhaps the duel for the hearts and minds of students is not quite a zero-sum game. Mark Seidenberg, a reading researcher at the University of Wisconsin, said it best: “I actually think reading is pretty great and can compete with...
...according to Dean R. Gallant, assistant dean for research policy and administration and director of the Science Center. The changes will not be particularly significant, as the reform will merely codify procedures already practiced by the faculty, Gallant said. “It’s like a fire alarm system,” said Gallant, who presented the proposal at yesterday’s meeting. “You don’t want to have one, but you’re happy when you do.” —Staff Writer Benjamin A. Jaffe...
...that picture is only partly correct. That China is watching the meltdown with alarm is certainly true. The global economic slowdown on the tail of the financial-market blowout is already clear and present on the mainland. In what has been one of the world's prime economic engines for the past five years, growth is slowing fast. Look only at the price of steel - as useful an industrial proxy for China's economic boom as any. According to Mysteel, a Shanghai-based consulting firm, the price for products used primarily in construction have fallen to less than...