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...Booker Prize for Fiction on Oct. 6 for her novel Wolf Hall, a fictionalization of the life of Thomas Cromwell, adviser to Henry VIII, during the King's attempts to produce a male heir to his throne. Mantel's win was not a surprise; bookmakers considered Wolf Hall the heaviest favorite in years. Winning the Booker Prize carries with it a ?50,000 prize and historically catapults the title to the top of best-seller lists worldwide. This is Mantel's first time winning the award, which is given annually to the best work of English-language fiction written...
People in the top fifth percentile of drinkers had the highest odds for anxiety. But it was abstainers who were at the highest risk for depression - higher even than the heaviest of drinkers...
...Bangkok feels high and dry compared to Jakarta. This year, in January, when the rainfall is heaviest, the U.S. embassy in Jakarta advised its citizens to stock up on food and water, keep cell phones charged and gas tanks at least three-quarters full, and exercise caution when driving through "small rivers." It's the sort of travel advisory you'd expect for negotiating an untamed wilderness, not a city of more than 12 million souls. Damage from a deadly 2007 flood cost Jakarta half a billion dollars - ironically, roughly the same cost as an unfinished project designed to prevent...
...their anger is of the slow-burning, passive-aggressive variety of a people who wear socks with sandals. All the mainstream parties encountered hostility on the doorstep as they campaigned for last week's elections, but Labour, as the party of government, was perceived to carry the heaviest responsibility. "When we talk about the end of New Labour - and it is the end of New Labour if it hadn't died already - what really has gone on is that the country has said, as one, we're not going to put up with this any more," says Lewis...
...algorithms processed by their high-powered computers, says economics professor David I. Laibson ’88. In certain cases, some economists say, their lack of economic intuition may have caused them to make incorrect assumptions that biased the models.One of the quantitative modeling concepts that has come under heaviest fire is Value at Risk, which, unlike Black-Scholes, was born of the demands of the trading floor.VaR projects the maximum loss a company will suffer in a given day assuming typical market conditions, such as 95 or 99 percent of the time. Senior management can then control the risks...