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...fresh idea comes from Eric Dinallo, the New York state insurance superintendent, who in a March 3 Wall Street Journal op-ed suggested that insurance commissioners mediate the ratings process, since insurers are among the largest buyers of rated bonds. Regulators would collect a fee from insurance outfits and then use the money to buy ratings for everyone to use. If the ratings proved too rosy over time - or inaccurate in another way - regulators would switch to a different ratings company...
Since the advent of dreadfully embarrassing sex-ed classes, American young'uns have been repeatedly told (and awkwardly shown) to use condoms. Safe sex = wrap it up. Even middle schoolers grasped the message...
What makes GM think this version will be another stud? "The design is very contemporary," says Ed Welburn, GM's chief designer. Welburn says he specifically instructed GM's stylists to retain the spirit of the old Camaro from the 1960s but not to try to replicate it. Work on the Camaro started in earnest in 2006 after GM had launched a major restructuring of its operations around the world. Consequently, Gene Stefanyshyn, the GM executive in charge of the project, moved to Australia to oversee the re-engineering of a rear-wheel-drive chassis that its Holden auto subsidiary...
...World Report, said abstinence education is the problem; they blamed the rising teen birthrate on the fact that federal funding for sex education over the past eight years has been restricted to programs that encourage kids to postpone sex until marriage. (Read "How to End the War Over Sex Ed...
...learning that a lot of young adults don't know as much about the basic facts and the birds and the bees as most of us think they do," she says. "If you're 24, the last time you had sex ed was probably in the 10th grade. You wouldn't have been taught about some of the newer methods of birth control like the ring or IUDs. There's a large amount of simple misinformation or ignorance...