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...form of the next bailout is not the critical issue. Banks will get the money they need to keep the global credit system from collapse. What is at stake is how the government will handle owning a majority stake in what used to be the pillars of the nation's financial system...
...opted not to read a book last year). A new question attempted to break the fiction genre down by subcategories - mystery, thriller, romance, science fiction, etc. - but with limited success: 46.3% of respondents prefer mysteries, while 40.8% prefer "other fiction." Poetry seems to be the most imperiled form of literature, largely because the number of women who read it - historically the genre's biggest fans - has fallen by 39% since...
...Vanguard-Sebring CitiCar, which was a boxy, even more miniature version of its miniscule Indian predecessor, the REVA, one of the world's best-selling electric cars. One of the most important changes those cars exhibited was a reliance on fuel cells, which produce electricity from some form of fuel (hydrogen, hydrocarbons and alcohol have all been used) as an alternative to batteries. While this helped increase speeds, it didn't help sales take off and ultimately defeated the purpose of a more environmentally friendly, non-fuel reliant automobile. Better versions of electric cars arrived over the next two decades...
...Moreover, what constitutes an edge in one form of trading could be deemed a drawback in another. Those more sensitive to changes in testosterone levels may be less well suited to holding down long-term trading positions, for one thing. "The message here," says Coates, "is that biology can give you an edge, just as it does in sports or music, but it's not that there's one biological trait that determines success in the financial world. Those traits will change, depending on which segment of the market...
Anbar, which makes up nearly one-third of Iraq's territory, was at the heart of the country's bloody insurgency against U.S. troops, which raged for more than three years. In 2006 local sheiks and former insurgents began to band together to form the Awakening movement. With funding from the U.S. military, the movement fought a fierce battle in 2007 against al-Qaeda-led insurgents, inspiring similar programs in other areas of Iraq. The Awakening is largely credited with quelling the insurgency and bringing stability to Anbar and Baghdad. Now many of Anbar's 35 parties carry names that...