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...case is sending ripples throughout the world of hedge funds, a stratum of high finance that has thus far been largely untouched by the post-meltdown regulatory scrutiny and populist outrage directed at mainstream banks. "This case should be a wake-up call for Wall Street," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in announcing the charges. Indeed. While many hedge funds wouldn't know what to do with inside information if they tripped over it - the strategy at quantitatively oriented shops often fixates on building better computer models - plenty of others ply their trade by working the phones and calling...
...complete, published study results, which include three analyses of the data, suggest that the experimental vaccine may be far less effective than the authors had originally indicated. The vaccine appears to have been slightly more protective among low- or average-HIV-risk participants than among high-risk individuals, like sex workers or intravenous drug users, and its effect appears to wane after the first year. (See TIME's photo-essay "Access to Life...
...troubles of today’s market were temporarily overshadowed by the more immediate concerns of going through the application process, but the downturn was far from forgotten...
Later that afternoon, the Plano, Texas native won another close contest against Cornell’s Jeff Fife, 7-6(13), 6-4. That earned him a chance to play in the quarterfinals—the only Harvard player to make it that far...
...about 60 percent of the people who have RSVP’d for the event so far are newbies, Wang told us, and free coaching will be provided. “Guns can, of course, be very dangerous, but part of the sport is learning proper safety techniques, so being afraid of the equipment shouldn't be a reason for missing out on this wonderful sport,” he said...