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Sounds awfully logical. So why haven't we stuck it to these guys? Because we're afraid they'll panic. "Unfortunately, we've built a system where if you hammer those guys hard, you're going to have a global credit collapse," said Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of...
Fair-value accounting, also known as mark-to-market accounting, requires banks to price assets on their balance sheets according to what you can sell them for on the open market. Seems logical enough. But how do you mark to market when the market is effectively shut down?
Tricky and possibly unrealistic, says Dr. Mitchell Rosen, director of the Fertility Preservation Center and Reproductive Laboratories at the University of California, San Francisco. "I don't think it would be used as a mainstream form of fertility treatment," he says. "I don't think it's going to replace...
Silber says without hesitation that he would help all women who wish to preserve their fertility this way - as long as patients were fully aware of the potential risks of ovary removal, which include early menopause. In fact, Silber is currently awaiting Institutional Review Board approval to perform ovary-tissue...
Only a few years ago, former University President Lawrence H. Summers told alumni in Washington that Harvard could soon resemble Renaissance Florence. The key, he said, would be development of the life sciences. But an unprecedented financial downturn has forced the University to reexamine its ambitious plans in recent months...