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...Administration. The issue with increasing access to credit, though, is that easy money was one of the main reasons we wound up on the brink of economic calamity in the first place. Taken as a group, new businesses may be job creators, but any sort of average masks the fact that many young companies completely combust. Lending to them is risky, and while it may be desirable to lend more in an attempt to create jobs, there is a flip side to the coin. There is a reason banks right now are hesitating to lend too readily - they've recently...
...seems like there are few obvious steps for a government looking to create jobs, that's because there are, in fact, few obvious steps. Governmental programs that would have the clearest impact are, by their nature, limited in scale. Broad-based programs come with caveats and knock-on effects...
...Vaccine With the world already grappling with a pandemic of 2009 H1N1 influenza, no treatment was more hotly anticipated or more in demand in the U.S. (and the rest of the northern hemisphere) than the new H1N1 vaccine when flu season officially kicked off in the fall. Despite the fact that the vaccine had proved effective in trials with one dose - rather than two, as researchers had originally expected - the vaccine supply from U.S. manufacturers still couldn't keep pace with demand in the first weeks of October, when the first million or so shots rolled off production lines...
...brain of Alzheimer's patients and eventually cause nerve-cell death and cognitive problems. The third affects the junction of nerve cells, where various neurochemicals work to relay signals from one nerve cell to another. It's not clear yet exactly how the genes increase Alzheimer's risk - in fact, most healthy people have some version of the three genes - but researchers hope that the growing pool of genetic factors will eventually help them develop more effective and better-targeted treatments for the disease. See the Top 10 Pictures of the Year...
...then there's witness protection in Mexico - which may as well be called witness detection, since it seems the country's violent drug traffickers are having little problem locating, and assassinating, the informants whom the government is supposed to be shielding. In less than two weeks, in fact, two of the country's most valuable soplones, or stool pigeons, have been killed in Mexico City. On Dec. 2, Edgar Bayardo - a former high-ranking federal police official whose information led to last year's indictment of Mexico's federal police chief and other top cops for alleged narco-corruption...