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...Given the lack of clarity over the threat posed by the virus, that's perhaps understandable. But gauging the impact of the outbreak - for markets and economies just as for health officials - takes time. Should the virus's potential for a pandemic be realized, though, its financial impact would be severe. As with the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which devastated the Asian economy in 2003, economic consequences would be measured "not so much in the number of people that go down with it, or unfortunately are killed by it," says Justin Urquhart Stewart, investment director at Seven...
Surprisingly, drinking had little impact on the results. Both drinkers and nondrinkers tended to favor the 15-year-old girls over the older ones, and when asked to estimate the younger girls' age, both groups of participants judged them to be just over 18 - or, just over the legal age for sex in the U.S. (The one condition under which drinkers preferred the 19-year-old faces was when they were wearing makeup, which has the effect of smoothing out wrinkles and granting a younger appearance - a finding that won't come as a great surprise to any woman...
...however, a study in the Journal of the Geological Society throws all that into question. The asteroid impact and dinosaur extinction, say the authors, may not have been simultaneous, instead occurring 300,000 years apart. That's an eyeblink in geologic time, but it's a relevant eyeblink all the same - one that occurred at just the right moment in ancient history to send the extinction theory entirely awry. (See pictures of meteors striking the earth...
...impact in the life of families and our society is much lower than it was before decriminalization," says Joao Castel-Branco Goulao, Portugual's "drug czar" and president of the Institute on Drugs and Drug Addiction, adding that police are now able to re-focus on tracking much higher level dealers and larger quantities of drugs...
...bigger question may be, will the global settlement have any lasting impact-or do we lose something significant when the money for independent research stops in July? By some measures, the bias of investment-bank stock research has, in fact, changed since the late 1990s and early 2000s. Back then, only about 1% to 2% of the companies covered by banks carried a "sell" rating, according to research-tracker Investars. These days, that figure falls more in the 15% to 20% range-an indication, one might argue, that analysts are making tougher calls on the companies they cover. That probably...