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...case law maintains that two main things must be established for an act to be illegal insider trading. First, the information in question must be material and non-public. Second, revealing or trading on the information must entail knowingly breaching a duty of "trust or confidence." This can be a fiduciary duty, which an officer of a company would have to a firm's shareholders (perhaps an Intel managing director), or - as the Supreme Court has more recently found - a lower-level employee who has a broader duty to not share, or personally benefit from, his firm's proprietary information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arrests Open a Window on Hedge-Fund Culture | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

During her talk, Khan cited examples from around the world to support her main point—that economic and social rights are inextricably intertwined with political and civil ones...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Amnesty Head Pushes a Rethinking of Poverty | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...guess I should be grateful, since Google Wave is both free and pretty cool. Its main defect is that it's almost impossible to explain. Google spokespeople have described Wave as what e-mail would look like if it had been invented now instead of 40 years ago. (Fun fact: the first e-mail was sent in 1971 between two Digital PDP-10 computers.) Keep in mind that until the mid-1990s, when e-mail went mainstream, the network environment was very different. Bandwidth was a scarce resource. You had your poky modem and liked it. Which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Wave: What's All the Fuss About? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Over the past few decades, medical improvements have made parenthood possible for millions of couples suffering from infertility. One of the main technological breakthroughs is in-vitro fertilization, which unites the sperm and egg in a test tube before implanting the embryo in the mother’s womb. The technology, however, comes at a high price. The procedure itself is expensive, but, more importantly, it can greatly increase the chance of seeing birth complications...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Hidden Risks of IVF | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson will now rest throughout the winter months and prepare for the main portion of its schedule in the spring...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Asserts Title Run Mindset | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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