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...collapse of Lehman Brothers on Sept. 15. Less than two weeks earlier, on Sept. 4, the Association for Financial Professionals surveyed more than 350 large companies about how the availability of short-term credit (or the lack thereof) was affecting business. Seventy-one percent said there was no significant impact, 11% said growth had slowed, and only 2% said business had contracted...
...biggest disconnect is that people out there don’t understand the impact on their daily lives,” she said. CORRECTION
Republican Presidential candidate John McCain’s health care plan would likely have little impact on the number of uninsured Americans, according to a study co-authored by Harvard School of Public Health professor Katherine Swartz. Swartz and her three co-writers concluded that, within five years, this number could in fact increase. “Moving toward a relatively unregulated non-group market will tend to raise costs, reduce the generosity of benefits, and leave people with fewer consumer protections,” the study found. The group focused on McCain’s proposals to introduce...
...chemistry Charles M. Lieber, professor of genetics Gary Ruvkun of Harvard Medical School, and professor of economics Martin S. Feldstein. Thomson Reuters has generated lists of probable winners since 1989, using a methodology that predominately relies upon the researcher’s number of “high impact papers” and total citation counts, according to their Web site. In addition to this quantitative data, Thomson Reuters assesses whether the discoveries are worthy of special recognition, the extent of the researcher’s contribution to the discovery, and other noteworthy awards previously held. The formula yields...
...secret X-band radar will be staffed by around 120 American technicians and security guards in the Negev, say Israeli military sources. But Israeli planning and air force officials are perturbed that Defense Minister Barak did not carry out any evaluation og the radar's possible impact on Israeli military operations before approving it. For one thing, Israeli defense experts are worried that waves from the X-band radar might throw off the accuracy of a new Gil anti-tank missile also being tested in the Negev. "The Bush Administration is in the mood to give us anything, as long...