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...Warren asked whether the government has plans to rerun the stress tests. With unemployment already at the level the government called "worst case" just a few months ago, Warren said she thought it time to look at bank strength again, assuming even higher levels of unemployment. Geithner replied that the Stress Tests were stringent enough...
...abrupt and fatal loss of heart function - is estimated to kill anywhere from 1 in 15,000 to 1 in 50,000 athletes. According to the International Olympic Committee, that rate is about three times higher than in the normal population. The condition usually gains public attention only after the death of an élite sportsman, like when Reggie Lewis of the Boston Celtics collapsed and died during basketball practice in 1993. However, all participants in regular athletic training - from recreational joggers to high school soccer players - are at increased risk. Almost all cases of SCD occur in athletes with...
...Science study also provided the first estimate of the person-to-person transmissibility of H1N1. The researchers calculate that every person infected by the virus will go on to infect 1.3 to 1.7 other people on average. (That number will probably be higher for schoolchildren - in one outbreak at a private school in New York City in the spring, each sick student infected 2.4 classmates.) As flus go, that makes H1N1 more transmissible than most - on par with the moderate 1957 Asian flu pandemic - which makes it particularly important to get a large chunk of the population vaccinated early...
...civic participation, there is a new social contract evolving between many Americans and businesses about what goes into making the products we buy. This does not change the need to serve in traditional ways. In fact, according to our poll, ethical consumers in the past year volunteered at higher rates than the rest of the population...
FlyBy: Here’s a good one, one guy asked why the cost of higher education now outpaces the standard of living?...