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...will be domestic, not foreign, policy that will occupy the President's attention for the next few months. The first order of business will be to shepherd the $825 billion stimulus package through Congress and ride herd on the additional $350 billion available to stabilize the banks. But the goal is to press an ambitious series of actions - policies that might have seemed impossible before the financial crash - across the board as quickly as possible. The quest for a national health-insurance system will debut with a major conference, bringing all the various players - including corporate America and the insurance...
...that they have no eyebrows--but there's a world of insight to be gained from her work on farm animals as well as more exotic zoo animals. Grandin shows a startling tenderness as she teases out what's troubling a wolf who couldn't stop pacing and a herd of antelopes who had panic attacks on their daily walks. (The culprit was a yellow sign; yellow is a scary color for many beasts.) Anybody who thinks autistic people lack empathy should read Animals Make Us Human...
...previous book, The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine (we're talking pigeons, sparrows, raccoons, etc.), by going after the massive and mythical buffalo. "In the spring of 2005," he writes, "the state of Alaska announced that it was issuing twenty-four hunting permits for the Copper River buffalo herd." He and 1,302 other hunters sent in their applications. Rinella won a permit, and off he went, on both a literal and an intellectual expedition, hoping to get one of the creatures in his rifle sights while also exploring the history, misconceptions and science behind the beast...
...were driven far enough into bodies to puncture stomachs and spill contents. Buffalo landed on other buffalo. Their horns and hooves ripped into each other's hides and flesh. The backs of the buffalo's eyes turned red with blood. Unhurt animals were trapped under the weight of their herd members. Calves wandered about in a daze, bellowing for their mothers. Severely injured buffalo regurgitated food and choked on their tongues...
...warned that too many hedge funds were investing in the same way. Because those sophisticated computer models were crunching the same data, there was a higher probability that hedgies would make the same bad bets, potentially causing a devastating cascade of failures. With so many fund managers following the herd, in other words, there was a greater chance that they would go over a cliff together. "A bank run doesn't affect just one bank," says Andrew Lo, a finance professor at MIT who applies ideas from psychology and evolutionary biology to investment. "It can easily spread to the entire...