Word: alongism
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...encouraged or even compelled to file for bankruptcy. When you keep on bailing out institutions indiscriminately, there is no incentive for them to be prudent in what they're doing, because they know that whatever they do, whatever problems they create by their own behavior, the government will come along and bail them out. So you are providing incentives for institutions to operate in a way that will only increase the opportunities for firms to behave in an unacceptable manner. The government's [bailout] actions will make the economy less productive and less prudent. (See the 50 worst cars...
...agents for extending life, other drugs may be further along in the pipeline - resveratrol, for one, which has also prolonged life in lab mice. But the new finding by Strong and his colleagues "more clearly identifies the [target of rapamycin] pathway as important across species." It may guide researchers to target different proteins in the same pathway. "If those proteins react the same way to extend lifespan, then we might be able to get rid of unwanted side effects," says Strong...
...spend plenty of time staring at the brake lights ahead of us - about 36 hours per year, on average, and much more in the nation's largest cities. This all comes with a heavy price in terms of wasted productivity and fuel. All the gas burned as we crawl along clogged roadways could fill 370,000 18-wheelers, the study says - enough to stretch from Houston to Boston to Los Angeles...
...Born to Run Her departure was a distillate of all things Palin. It packed the same gob-smacking wallop as her arrival on the GOP ticket. Sunlit against an Alaskan waterfront, it was as telegenic as her boffo acceptance speech. Rambling along in Palinesque fashion, she didn't quite tell us where she's headed, but she left no doubt that she remains in a hurry to get there...
...Unlike many of the nomadic tribes of Central Asia, the Uighurs are an urban people whose identity crystallized in the oasis towns of the Silk Road. A walk through the bazaars of old Uighur centers such as Kashgar, Khotan or Yarkhand reveals the physical legacy of a people rooted along the first trans-contintental trade route: an astonishing array of hazel and even blue eyes, with blonde or brown or black hair - typically tucked beneath headscarves or the customary Uighur felt...