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While I can't write what I want to say about Twitter in only 140 characters (the maximum number you can use in a tweet), there is an admirable brevity to tweets that is increasingly rare in our culture. I would argue that Twitter is a uniquely democratic form of communication--that is, it's open to everyone, there is no central authority, and people vote on whom and what they like by signing up to be followers. It's about the wisdom--or folly--of crowds. It's also, as Johnson observes in his superb piece, a prototype...
...economy and two wars to handle the gay ban right away. "It's a complete lie that he has too much stuff on his plate - this is the guy who criticized Bush for not being able to multitask," Pietrangelo says. "We have an old saying in the military - the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero meters...
...economists say, their lack of economic intuition may have caused them to make incorrect assumptions that biased the models.One of the quantitative modeling concepts that has come under heaviest fire is Value at Risk, which, unlike Black-Scholes, was born of the demands of the trading floor.VaR projects the maximum loss a company will suffer in a given day assuming typical market conditions, such as 95 or 99 percent of the time. Senior management can then control the risks assumed by the firm by directing traders to increase or decrease the VaR, depending on the company’s appetite...
...embargo on oversize, overweight or excess baggage from June 6 to Aug. 25 on flights from the U.S. to Grenada, Jamaica, Haiti, Ecuador, the Bahamas, Mexico, Puerto Rico and other destinations in the Caribbean and Central and South America. Passengers will be allowed one carry-on bag, with a maximum size of 45 linear inches and a maximum weight of 40 lb. Checked luggage weighing between 51 and 70 pounds will cost $50 per bag. Sports equipment, such as golf bags, surfboards and other items, can be counted as part of the total checked-bag allowance, but you may have...