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SEAS graduate student James C. Bird, who led the study, found that the forces acting on a bubble cause the film to fold into itself and form a donut-shaped pocket of air. Then, the surface tension breaks the "torus of air" into a ring of smaller bubbles, Bird wrote in a press release...
...reformed is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. When I was asked by a senior member of the House Committee on Financial Services about Mary L. Shapiro’s appointment to the chairmanship of the SEC, I simply said that she was the sergeant at the donut shop while Bernard "Bernie" L. Madoff absconded with old ladies’ pensions. She’s another card in an old deck of the dysfunctional world of financial regulatory oversight. If I sound cynical, it’s because I have been around Wall Street and the financial-services business...
...Close the Medicare Part D prescription drug gap known as the "donut hole," which leaves beneficiaries without prescription drug coverage once their costs exceed $2,830 (in 2010), and doesn't kick back in until they spend $4,550 out of pocket. This provision, which would cost the federal government about $20 billion over 10 years, gradually closes the gap beginning in 2011, so Medicare Part D recipients will eventually pay no more than 25% co-insurance for name-brand drugs. In 2010, Medicare Part D enrollees who reach the gap will receive $250 rebate checks...
Halsey was known for his light-heartedness. Once a friend offered him a donut, and Halsey declined, saying jokingly, “I can’t distinguish the taste of something from its effects on my body...
...play looks even better when placed alongside another Chicago-set play that has just opened on Broadway: Superior Donuts,Tracy Letts' so-so follow-up to his superb August Osage County.The story of an aging proprietor of an inner-city donut shop and the street kid who comes to work for him, it (like A Steady Rain) purports to have some street cred. But the thugs who menace the young employee (leaning on him to pay off gambling debts) look like B-movie retreads, the off-screen violence seems manufactured for effect, and the denouement is far more sentimental...