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...YOUR HANDS DIRTY. Many volunteers want a connection with the folks they help. You can still put in time at the soup kitchen or mentor a child. Indeed, as foundations grow ever larger, there is ever more need for volunteers to put the programs into practice...
...riffling through details obscures the larger force at work--capitalism's cold efficiency. What Wall Street does is raise money to throw at innovation. Creating liquidity in mortgage markets so that more people can buy houses is not so unlike funneling billions to Silicon Valley in the 1990s to secure U.S. technological dominance...
...summer an LTCM-like collapse seemed like a possibility as the credit crunch intensified. That's one reason why there's growing urgency to understand how these huge pools of private capital can disrupt markets. In the U.S., California lawmakers and regulators are pushing a proposal that would require larger hedge funds that have fewer than 15 clients to register and to open their records to state oversight. In Europe, the German government is spearheading an inquiry into the subprime crisis by the G7 group of industrialized nations. While hedge funds were not at the center of the credit crunch...
...health insurance,” said Ashish Jha, a professor at the School of Public Health. “Frankly, I have been very surprised at how little political traction the issue of uninsured veterans has gotten, but maybe in a presidential election year, this study will have a larger effect...
...There are some people who live in Idaho, next to a national park, who've called in: their cats will undoubtedly have been killed by something larger than themselves. They're a delicious snack, for anything from a hawk to a cougar to a raccoon. For [other cat owners,] the No. 1 killer of cats is cars. The average lifespan of an indoor-outdoor cat is seven years. The average lifespan of an indoor cat is 21 years. So that pretty much says it. Outside, you have feral cats carrying disease; you have dogs that attack; you have cars, cars...