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...state to which we must return as soon as possible. Getting prices "moving again"--which means moving higher--is one all-but-explicit goal of the Paulson bailout. If house prices head back up, fewer mortgages will exceed the value of the asset that backs them up, foreclosures will drop, and bankers will be willing to lend again. More generally, in a nation of homeowners, people will get back that cozy feeling that they are getting richer without lifting a finger. "Confidence"--today's great missing ingredient--will be restored. The crisis will end. The dreamer awakes and takes...
...planet right now are probably [Ferran] Adri�, [Thomas] Keller, Pierre Gagnaire; but there's a whole world of Japanese cooking out there that I don't even understand. The most exciting thing for me would be to take a couple of us from Iron Chef America and drop us in Japan. That's where the real battle, I think, would ensue...
Eventually, the fluid will be a drop of a patient’s blood, sweat, or urine, which will then be separated into compartments on the paper that will change color to indicate the presence of certain enzymes or proteins that in turn could indicate certain diseases...
Traditional favorite Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice” won gold again as the College’s most popular class, but the three most popular undergraduate courses all registered drops in enrollment. The number of students taking “Justice” fell from 1,115 last fall to 858 this year, while second-place social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics” and third-place Life Sciences 1a: “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences” each lost more than 50 students. (Ec 10 and Life Sciences 1a?...
...level: it keeps moving, and where it ends up depends on who's talking. Some optimists think the mortgages the Treasury will buy are basically sound, and that the ultimate loss to the government after it sells them could be as little as $100 billion. Others point to a drop in housing prices of nearly 20% since mid-2006 and say the government's eventual loss could approach $1 trillion. By seeking $700 billion - roughly akin to the cost of the Iraq war (so far) - the Treasury is taking a middle path. But many on Capitol Hill are pushing...