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...flora and fauna here, having developed for some 80 million years in virtual isolation from the rest of the world, have taken some curious evolutionary turns. The nocturnal aye-aye, for instance, has a long, skeletal middle finger that enables it to retrieve grubs from inside trees; the hook-billed vanga evolved a curved bill for a similar reason, while the horned-leaf chameleon can change color to match the dead leaves on the floor of western Madagascar's dry deciduous forest...
...voting down the proposed $700 billion financial bailout package - and causing a spectacular stock market rout - a majority of members in the House of Representatives made a clear statement that they didn't want to put taxpayers on the hook for the failures of financial institutions...
...there's a catch: taxpayers are already on the hook for the failures of financial institutions, and it's possible that the bill will actually be larger without bailout legislation than with it. That's because the regulators who mind the financial industry - the Federal Reserve, Treasury and FDIC - will keep doing what they've been doing: stepping in to prevent the chaotic failure of banks and other large financial institutions. This means continuing to put hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars at risk, but in a way that adheres to no clear plan of action and doesn't require...
...Still, as Scotti notes, there are many student musicians WHO are not aware of the opportunities offered by Club Passim. “I don’t think a lot of them realize they can walk from their dorm to this great place and just have a seat, hook it up on stage. I think that’s a really important thing, not just for Harvard, but for all kids,” she says. “There’s nothing like that out there...
...that I've made is, this is about the American taxpayer and as much as I don't want to be here asking for this, it pains me to do this, we believe that this is much less costly than the alternative. Because the taxpayer is already on the hook for the impact on the economy if our financial markets don't work the way they need to work...