Word: commoners
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...equity has no interest in stakes in troubled banks even at a steep discount to their current market values. To help improve banks' capital bases, the Administration will almost certainly have to take the money it has given and is about to give to banks, and convert it into common stock. That will crush current shareholders and it will create the problem of how taxpayers ever get paid back. (See 10 things to do with your money...
...Portfolio launch and jumped ship after the first eight months. But more daring editorial choices, like December's cover subject of Dov Charney, the controversial CEO of American Apparel, came across as ill-timed and wrong-footed. "[Newhouse's] best editors in chief all have one thing in common," wrote former staffer Paul Smalera, on the Portfolio-obsessed website Gawker.com, "which is they know how to channel and predict the predilections of their readers and turn at least a couple issues a year into can't-miss propositions. Lipman did not have this particular talent...
Variations in these genes on chromosome 5 are extremely common - present in more than half of healthy people. But they are even more common in individuals with autism, affecting 65%. It takes enormous genomewide association studies like this one - what researchers call very "high powered" studies - to discern this kind of statistical difference. (See six tips on traveling with an autistic child...
...could ultimately develop drugs that affect the biochemical pathways associated with these genes. Drugs that are precisely targeted in this way are already being tested in an autism-related disorder called Fragile X syndrome. Even if there are hundreds of genetic combinations that lead to autism, there may be common pathways for drugmakers to target...
Holoshitz said that because the program requires students to use House common spaces, House masters will have additional input in deciding whether grant funds can be used in the House...