Word: doneness
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...things wrong. Based on its trading activity now, Goldman says it could lose as much as $250 million in a day should its bets go wrong, up 30% from a year ago. What's more, even though Goldman has become a bank holding company, like Morgan, it has done little to begin to attract more deposits...
...Today, Americans are being told to brace themselves for explosions of flu, shuttered schools, mass vaccinations and tens of thousands of deaths - or perhaps not. Are the media to blame for the confusion? Absolutely. But no more than usual. What about the government? So far, officials have done a relatively decent job of explaining what they know and what they don't and planning for the worst. "It's going to be a unique flu season. The only thing certain is uncertainty," says Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "Even with the best...
...Armageddon is going to happen!' The trick is getting people to the middle." Research into human decision-making has shown that if people feel as though they can influence their destiny, they tend to make smarter choices. But if authorities warn them not to panic (as President Obama has done), people may make worse decisions. They feel more frightened - not less - and wonder what they don't know that might make them panic. "Never tell people not to worry. That's really, really bad," Dr. Richard Besser, former acting director of the CDC, said at a recent government flu conference...
...after all, merely going to college,” Navarrette writes, “As so many of my classmates from high school–60 percent of them, to be exact–were doing and as others had done for generations before me. Good luck? I didn’t need luck, I thought to myself. Public school...
...intern at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, disagreed. “She presented a lot of interesting, in-depth data. I was surprised at some of the results”, he said. But Cainkar cautioned that much still needs to be done to resolve the racial issue. “The sad thing is, though, we have not learned a thing”, Cainkar said. “We keep making the same mistakes...