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...growing number of regulators seem to think some relaxation of the rules may make sense. The top U.S. banking supervisor, Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan, tells TIME he is in favor of letting the banks mark back up the value of some of their toxic assets. "I think there are some changes that ought to be made," Dugan says. Mark-to-market accounting is a problem, he says, for illiquid assets because "those things have just stopped trading altogether." Dugan does not support doing away with mark-to-market entirely; not even industry lobbyists want that. But his deputy...
...rise. Up to 600 million people in coastal areas around the world could be at increased risk for flooding. "Unless we take urgent and significant mitigation actions, the climate could cross a threshold during the 21st century committing the world to a sea-level rise of meters," says John Church, an oceanographer at the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research and one of the study's co-authors...
...than any of their contemporaries, wears their influences on their sleeve. The YLT companion to “Fuckbook,” 1990’s “Fakebook,” features 11 acoustic covers of balladeers running the gamut from Cat Stevens and Ray Davies to John Cale and Daniel Johnston. But Condo Fucks take the tastemaker ethic a step further. In lieu delicate tribute to Slade, the Electric Eels and the Troggs, “Fuckbook” grinds 11 more of the band’s favorite numbers—would-be garage and glam...
...Warren have published subscription newsletters. What Warren and Reader's Digest have created is essentially a new marketing and distribution network for Christian small-group materials, packaged in a glossy newsletter-on-steroids that features full-spread ads from groups like Compassion International and Regent University. (See pictures of John 3: 16 in pop culture...
...party has switched gears. Sinn Fein's Assembly member for Craigavon, John O'Dowd, condemned last night's killing as "wrong and counter productive". With Northern Ireland's largest parties all united in condemnation of the attacks and its citizens overwhelmingly opposed to a return to violence, it's unlikely that the dissidents will seriously undermine the democratic institutions their actions are designed to destabilize. But even if the peace process is intact, the peace of Northern Ireland's streets has been seriously disrupted...