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...would have averted having to mark down its fund. We can say that because that's what big, multi-faceted money managers have been doing. According to Crane Data, over the past 13 months, 21 money market funds have received capital infusions from their parent companies in order to avoid breaking the buck. Parent companies can go as far as actually handing the funds cash and take the troubled assets onto their own books. The early problems were tied to commercial paper issued by mortgage-related structured investment vehicles and collateralized debt obligations (don't worry: there...
...find it sickening that a man who has made a "career" out of killing animals, preserving their remains and calling it art is receiving so much attention from the media. This self-obsessed man confesses that his work is all "a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas." His work is not art, and we should not be worshiping a man whose only motivation seems to be to getting attention and money by provoking controversy. Mat Beckwith, Villars, Switzerland
...extraordinary missed opportunity in fighting cancer centers on the lack of primary prevention: avoid, reduce and eliminate exposure to carcinogens [Sept. 15]. Shamefully, the National Cancer Institute invests only a minuscule amount to prevent cancers, opting predominantly for a posteriori treatment. Mortality for certain cancers has decreased slightly in the past few years, but the incidence of cancers has not. With more than 100,000 chemicals and formula combinations on the consumer market and less than 5% evaluated for cancer-causing potential, it is past time for identifying chemical and environmental carcinogens. James Huff, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health...
...need for better villains. Uber-baddie Sylar (Zachary Quinto) is up to his old tricks; his menace and mission (stealing superheroes' powers by killing them) are too familiar to be scary anymore. He's a popular villain, but Season 3 will have to figure out how to avoid becoming his hostage...
...more drones to the war zones. He and Moseley also differed over whether non-pilots should be able to operate weapons-carrying drones. Like other previous Air Force leaders, Moseley argued that only a trained pilot had the mental and moral heft to deliver bombs and missiles, or could avoid mid-air collisions with other aircraft. Last April, Gates complained that while running the CIA in 1992 he discovered "the Air Force would not co-fund with CIA a vehicle without a pilot." That stubborn thinking, he suggested, makes no sense as drones have flooded the skies over Afghanistan...