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...date, is an age of finance. It is the banks and investment houses, the mutual funds and money managers, taking in their clients' cash and spreading it around the world, who have made today's global economy what it is. In Victorian times, London alone could fulfill this function. (The city funded enterprises all over the world, including much of the industrial development of the U.S. after the Civil War.) But the job has become too big for one place to handle. Now Nylonkong, that interconnected tripartite city, greases the wheels of trade and development. This is where the great...
...threat of pain by calling your attention to the part of your body that's in danger, increasing the amount of discomfort you ultimately feel. In Coan's study, the right anterior insula of happily married women stayed relatively quiet. "This suggests," he says, "that your spouse may function as an analgesic...
...Still, psychological problems are often related, which means that different problems can affect the body in the same ways. The bottom line is that more study will be needed before we know how much sway our brains have over our heart function - and how much we can control what happens in the mind to prevent a heart attack...
...broad expansion of health care, a comprehensive solution to the threat of climate change, and a host of other progressive reforms. In the absence of major differences between the candidates’ policy positions, Obama’s victory might seem to be a fluke—a function of some factor as arbitrary as the weather or the Orange Bowl...
...queer students.But members of the BGLTSA have sensed that there are other issues with the organization that inhibit its effectiveness as a political player. In an interview, former Political Chair Katherine E. Smith ’10, said, “the BGLTSA serves a social and community building function and, subsequently, must temper its political stances and activities so to be inclusive of all queer individuals.” She went on to explain that LGBT rights, such as the fight for equal marriage rights or the effort to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), deserve strong, unified...