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...banking system cannot be allowed to fail and that no one is certain how to fix it. Too much criticism could lead to public anxiety about the entire set of programs meant to repair the broken financial and credit markets and suddenly there may be much more to fear than fear itself...
...back down around 40 (see chart below). That's good news. The VIX is interpreted as a measure of volatility in a certain sense, but it more accurately measures fear rather than volatility. That is why the VIX is important to the average investor: it is a sign of uncertainty. So a falling VIX may portend better times ahead. (See pictures of the top 10 scared traders...
...writing to express my deep indignation upon hearing that our prestigious university’s most sacred of structures, the Harvard Faculty Club, will soon be profaned. I fear that this hallowed hall—once the very epicenter of intellectual conversation and civilized debate—will now become the stomping grounds for this university’s lowest specimen of vermin: students...
...extent to which domestication will change dogs into the proximity of human thinking.” The lab formerly housed 40 cottontop tamarin monkeys but were recently replaced by dogs because of the high cost of caring for the monkeys. This switch from monkeys to dogs has struck fear into the hearts of many on-campus dog-lovers, who worry that the dogs will be used in harsh tests. “They don’t hook the dogs up to those crazy electro things, do they?” wonders Cabot Librarian and campus-renowned animal-lover Ronald...
...Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay and camps in Afghanistan based some of their interrogations on techniques taken from the military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training program. These techniques included waterboarding, walling (slamming detainees into a flexible wall), sleep deprivation, hooding and using dogs to inspire fear. (See pictures of life inside Guantánamo...