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...Convincing every major economy of the virtues of a bank tax, though, remains the biggest challenge. Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, for instance, rejected a bank tax out of hand earlier this month, favoring instead a wider implementation of some of the tough rules that left his country's banks relatively unscathed by the crisis. But the publication next month of the International Monetary Fund's recommendations on bank taxes - a report commissioned by the G-20 countries last year - might help coax reluctant nations into considering the measure. "Some countries feel they did their homework," says Arturo De Frias...
...looming expiration of two major federal programs - the home-buyer tax-credit initiative and the Federal Reserve's $1.25 trillion mortgage-securities-purchase program - likely won't wipe out the recovery currently under way in the battered housing sector, but it could stall it, experts...
...authors say even that dire prediction was optimistic. At the time, researchers did not predict the rise in Chinese demand for timber or the extent of mining in Congo. "Ten years ago, when we did the other report, China and the rest of Asia were not major players in Africa, and now China has up to 40% of the wood-and-mineral trade," Christian Nellemann, a U.N. Environment Program official and the report's lead author, tells TIME. "We have new satellite imagery, new scientific evidence. We have new alarming reports on Ebola and transnational crime taking place in eastern...
Guan didn’t seek out the Liu lab; rather, her interest in directed evolution, a major part of her life since her junior year of high school, allowed it to effectively find...
...officially named Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, and the Clinical Wing. The entire Corner is now frequently referred to as “Wasserstein Caspersen Clinical,” or “WCC” for short. The Clinical Wing serves as a potential naming opportunity for a major donor...