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...economy soured and the subprime credit crunch began expanding into other credit areas over the past year, CDS investors became jittery. They wondered if the parties holding the CDS insurance after multiple trades would have the financial wherewithal to pay up in the event of mass defaults. "In the past six to eight months, there's been a deterioration in market liquidity and the ability to get willing buyers for structured finance securities," causing the values of the securities to fall, said Glenn Arden, a partner at Jones Day who heads up the firm's worldwide securitization practice...
...conservatives' may not have the same level of mass support as the reformists once did, but they are better organized. Many voters arrived at ballot boxes (erroneously) convinced that the only list backed by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was that of the pro-Ahmadinejad UPC. They had been told that in their mosques, or through text messages sent to their mobile phones, or through neighborhood word-of-mouth. At the Lorzadeh Mosque in southern Tehran where President Ahmadinejad cast his ballot, Golbarg Tavakoli, an old lady who could barely walk had come, she said, "to support...
...When new stars form, they have too much [mass],” says Alyssa A. Goodman, a professor of astronomy and director...
...excess mass gives a nascent star too much angular momentum, preventing it from collapsing on itself to begin the process of nuclear fusion...
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