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When Elsarraj’s cell phone rang during her presentation, she took it as an opportunity to explain the distinct significance...
...handful of the more than three dozen slides in the Powerpoint he had prepared on Social Security when the questions started. "Who are the trustees?" a man asked Kingston, a Republican congressman who represents 29 counties in the coastal Georgia area around Savannah. After Kingston started trying to explain who the Social Security trustees are, the man quickly interjected "are they congressmen or banks?" Kingston said he wasn?t exactly sure who the trustees were, but he would find out. He moved on to the next slide to explain that Social Security's Trust Fund would be depleted...
While every worker can decide for himself, I would like to explain why I would divert payroll taxes into a PRA invested in stock index funds. The first is that over long periods, the stock market offers much higher returns for what I find an acceptably low risk. Jeremy Siegel, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has found that the broad stock market from 1802 through 2003 averaged a 6.8 percent annual real rate of return. While the markets fluctuate from year to year, over all 30-year holding periods since 1802, the lowest annual real return...
...forget I'm here" quite so eloquently as the pose of the shy--the averted gaze, the hunched shoulders, the body pivoted away from the crowd. Shyness is a state that can be painful to watch, worse to experience and, in survival terms at least, awfully hard to explain. In a species as hungry for social interaction as ours, a trait that causes some individuals to shrink from the group ought to have been snuffed out pretty early on. Yet shyness is commonplace. "I think of shyness as one end of the normal range of human temperament," says professor...
Faces aren't the only things working against the shy; their genes may be too. As part of Battaglia's study, he collected saliva samples from his 49 subjects and analyzed their DNA, looking for something that might further explain his results. The shy children, he found, had one or two shorter copies of a gene that codes for the flow of the brain chemical serotonin, a neurotransmitter that plays a role in anxiety, depression and other mood states. Battaglia's lab is not the only one to have linked this gene to shyness, and while nobody pretends...