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...even participated in cadaver dissections. At the talk, Macaulay showed three interpretations of the digestive system, depicting it alternatively as a factory, a river, and a college campus. Other images included a series on the muscle-by-muscle construction of an eye that showed tiny people using a crane to lift the eyeball into the skull. Another depicted a roller-coaster, aptly titled “Ride of a Lifetime,” winding its way from a forest—the lungs—through a pumping heart. Macaulay described the arduous process of learning about the body, which...
...first goal came on a penalty corner with seven minutes remaining in the half. Junior back Elizabeth Goodman-Bacon took the corner, and the ball was passed around to freshman midfielder Carly Dickson at the top of the circle. Dickson ripped a shot that sent Vermont goaltender Brooke Crane diving. Crane managed to deflect the attempt, but Goodman-Bacon swooped in and buried the rebound into the cage for her first goal of the season. Almost four minutes later, the Crimson struck again. This time, Goodman-Bacon had possession of the ball just over midfield and sent a through ball...
...there hasn't been anything resembling a full-blown run. A lot of money flowed out of money funds for the week ending Sept. 18, but most of the redemptions were among institutional investors, says Crane. The person who can prevent it from spreading to retail investors...
...Reserve Management were a big, multi-faceted money manager instead of a focused, privately held company, there's a good chance it 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...
...want the highest return on your money. Except that maybe you don't. Higher yields usually mean riskier investments - more commercial paper, say, as opposed to Treasuries. Last Friday, before the Lehman implosion, Reserve Primary Fund was the second highest-yielding fund of the 100 largest tracked by Crane Data. For months before that, it was in the No. 1 slot. "You want to act like the smart caribous and stand in the middle of the pack," says Crane. And, of course, make sure your fund is at a big firm that has the wherewithal to back it up, should...