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...measure that ultimately leads to "lowering the risk of insolvency." Citi's common capital ratio, at just 2.3%, was closer to zero than any other of the banks the government looked at. State Street's ratio at 15.5%, which was the highest of the banks, was nearly seven times greater than Citi's. Fourteen of the banks the government examined had a common capital ratio above 5%. The next lowest ratio to Citi was Wells Fargo, which had a common capital ratio...
...cancer screen doesn't have - yet. But it's something that Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon-cancer expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, believes is necessary to make the test truly useful for doctors and patients. "What this test clearly does is tell people that you have a greater likelihood of being in the group that is at high risk or low risk of having a recurrence, but it doesn't tell you that your risk will change if you get chemo...
...steps he has taken that move him decidedly toward the political center on issues of national security. No longer a mere senator representing a single state, Obama is now the commander-in-chief, and his reversal highlights the unique burdens that he alone now shoulders. Those pressures are even greater amid two wars Obama did not start, but that will certainly play a large role in defining his legacy. (See behind the scenes photographs of Obama in Iraq...
...rudimentary agreement on information-sharing. Agricultural and trade delegations also met, as did, most significant of all, military and intelligence representatives. (The idea that the Afghan intelligence service would break bread with the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, which created the Taliban, is mind-boggling.) These advances were given greater heft by positive developments on the ground - especially Pakistan's apparent decision to stop the Taliban advance toward Islamabad, using six to eight brigades transferred from the Indian border. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...part of the country to Shi'ite insurgents, but Saddam held on and remained in power. The Iranian regime believes it can weather the same degree of losses, especially as it has adequately prepared its populace for "martyrdom." As a result, it believes it is able to withstand much greater human and material losses than the U.S. A $100-per-bbl. spike in the price of oil and a few thousand Americans dead, its thinking goes, will convince the U.S. to seek a truce...