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...potential of this vast audience. Admittedly, there have been efforts to do so as recently as last year through acquisitions of international media outlets and distributors, but the efforts have been halfhearted. Our brothers in the United Kingdom—so loyal in times of war—still cannot watch the most recent episode of 30 Rock without breaking...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 4 | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...laboratory skills, theoretical knowledge, applications, the intersection of chemistry with other sciences, and broader questions of environment and forensics.” The goal, it appears, is to give students, universities, and employers a greater degree of comparability and quality assurance across institutions that current, less consistent degree standards cannot provide...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Higher Standards? | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...Although CDSs work like insurance for investments, buying and selling them is similar to trading stocks. This generates a hazardous web of firms that hedged bets by both buying and selling CDSs. If one firm defaults, it cannot pay out the next firm’s insurance that can cause another firm to default, and so on. To further complicate matters, since CDSs are unregulated, there is no authority to which these transactions are reported. Thus, no single firm knows how many CDS deals have been made, and firms do not know to whom most CDSs have been sold. Additionally...

Author: By George Hayward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Regulating Credit Default Swaps | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...ensuing panic results in a lack of confidence, since one cannot be sure if a company is doing as well as it claims to be. Therefore, the government must make CDS transactions a matter of public record...

Author: By George Hayward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Regulating Credit Default Swaps | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...Western products are available, these options are often unaffordable for the majority in India. For instance, Monensin, an antibiotic whose slow-release formula reduces methane emission by cows, proved too expensive for widespread use in India. So the emphasis for Indian scientists is on indigenous solutions. "We know we cannot count on high-quality feed and fodder," says Singhal. "No one will be able to afford it. What we have done instead is develop cheaper technologies and products." One example is urea-molasses-mineral blocks that are cheap, reduce methane emission by 20%, and also provide more nutrition, so they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cows with Gas: India's Global-Warming Problem | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

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