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...mostly left-leaning doves believe that Bernanke, as bold as he was during the crisis, is now being outrageously cautious. They want him to buy even more mortgages and pump even more liquidity into the economy. They would welcome a little inflation, which could make Americans feel a bit poorer but could also encourage lenders and investors to put more money to work rather than hoarding it. Some of them suspect that Bernanke, a onetime economic adviser to George W. Bush, is choosing the brakes over the gas because he's a conservative Republican at heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Reconfirming Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

What the ADARC scientists are struggling to achieve is a thorough understanding of how ibalizumab operates and how they can control those machinations. The CD4 cell is a bit like an immunological sentinel, endowed with the ability to recognize snippets of various pathogens, from common influenza to HIV, and mark them for destruction by other cells. Once attached to a CD4, HIV begins an intricate series of steps to gain entry into the cell. Ibalizumab is able to disrupt this intricate molecular choreography by binding to the CD4 and serving as an immunological snare. With the antibody stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

Continually easing the pain of jobless Americans, it turns out, can contribute to high jobless rates by warping incentives to look for work. "The consensus estimates show that unemployment benefits do prolong unemployment spells by quite a bit," says University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer, who has produced academic studies on the issue dating back to the recession of the early 1980s. (See 10 ways your job will change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Limit to Compassion | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...tale of two different meets this weekend,” co-captain Tommy Gray said. “Against Brown we came out kind of flat—I think we underestimated them a bit...Saturday against BU was the complete opposite...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sweeps Senior Weekend | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...plan was to go in there with a little bit of an off lineup and try to have some really good races,” she said...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Stays Undefeated, Routs Brown | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

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