Word: impaction
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...playing to our fears, Weller says the penny is a psychological hedge against inflation, a consideration the European Union factored in when it decided to make a one-cent euro coin (though several countries have since effectively banished it): "If you take the penny away, that has a huge impact on how people view the economy and inflation." If you think Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's statements rock the markets, Weller says, wait till you see what happens if we lose the penny. Then Weller gets personal. "Kolbe is from the leading copper-producing state in the Union...
...intended to offer their ultralight cars for sale. "The real problem is that consumers are still very wary of these cars," says Garel Rhys, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff University Business School in Wales. "People don't buy a car solely for its environmental impact but for a host of other reasons, the way it drives and how it looks." But with fuel prices at historic highs, all that may be about to change. ceo Heilmaier says 10,000 people have signaled interest in buying a Loremo since March, when a model was shown...
DIED. Philip Rieff, 83, conservative sociologist and cultural theorist at the University of Pennsylvania best known for a trio of books on the destructive impact of Sigmund Freud; in Philadelphia. In January, Rieff published his last book, Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks--in which he cites legal abortion, the gay-rights movement and pop music as examples of cultural decline--and dedicated it to the memory of his first wife, essayist Susan Sontag...
...With so much on the line in an admittedly subjective process, the staff Harvard hires to pick its undergraduates—and how that staff is trained—has a major impact on the makeup of the College’s student body...
...Given the subjective nature of the process, the composition of the admissions committee—with nearly 40 members ranging from recent college graduates to longtime admissions veterans—can have a significant impact on the composition of the incoming class...