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...study in which investigators found that on the first day of trading, newly issued stocks with simple ticker symbols like KAR sold better than those with less pleasing ones, like RDO. "While the authors did not argue about risk perception," he says, "I believe risk may be underlying the effect...
...rollie coastie. Imagine all-a the food-a being cotton candy and gummies shaped liked me-sa, Jar Jar Binks! Exskweeze me! Me-sa needing never-ending snow cone and a giant gumdroppa palace, but in this economic climate, I hardly believe it would be worth the long-term effect to our investment capital to build an underwater rollie coastie. O-kee day? [2] 5. Ahem, the problem with Harvard’s student body is that we have too many do-gooders and not enough projects for them. Enter the “Sisyphean Institute for Public Works?...
...support for cost-benefit analysis, the practice of examining regulations to ensure that their benefit to society outweighs whatever costs they impose. Liberal advocacy groups claim that cost-benefit analysis has been a weapon that every Republican President since Ronald Reagan - who created OIRA - has used to thwart effective government regulation of the environment, workplace and consumer safety. OIRA, after all, examines all proposed federal regulations before they take effect - be they issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration - and it has the power to delay or reject...
...immediate effect of the Yukos admission is that Russians will be encouraged to take even more of their beefs to the ECHR - even though it is no guarantee of getting what they see as their just deserts. "Russians have created this myth about the European Court of Human Rights," says Lev Ponomaryov, a leading human-rights activist, "that it is this ideal system that will resolve everyone's case, and compared to our system, it is perfect, which I think is partially true - but many do misuse it and file cases without exhausting legal means at home." According to Ponomaryov...
...some researchers to contemplate whether the consistent and comprehensive use of bedside solutions may actually slow the progression of the disease. If rudimentary tools have any chance of inhibiting the disease, health-care workers are interested. When it comes to Alzheimer's, even incremental improvements can have a profound effect: a 2004 Australian study found that delaying the onset of dementia by five years would eventually halve the number of people living with the condition...