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...Canada withstood the subprime tornado better than other countries, and should the Canadian banking system be a model for G-7 and G-20 leaders when they gather in Washington on Nov. 15? Consider that the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, an influential think tank whose annual conference attracts the likes of Bill Gates and Tony Blair, earlier this month ranked Canada's banking system as the soundest in the world. The U.S. came in at No. 40, and Germany and Britain ranked 39 and 44, respectively. (Switzerland was No. 16, just ahead of Namibia.) "For Canadian banks, having higher...
...Epstein was the program director of the General Clinical Research Center at Beth Israel, where he studied mechanisms of acute renal failure. He also conducted research at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Maine, focusing most recently on the cellular transport of salt in a shark model of the ascending limb of mammalian kidneys. He worked in the Desert Island lab for 40 years and served as its president for 10 years. As a research mentor in Maine, Epstein worked with high school and medical school students exploring marine physiology. Michael Amato, a freshman at the University of North Caroline...
...laboratory openings,” establishing a centralized database may ease this difficulty. Hammonds also praised Harvard’s Program for Research in Science and Engineering—the 10-week summer residential program for students doing on-campus science research—as a “model for student-faculty interactions” and stressed the need to establish a similar opportunity for the social sciences. In addition, she spoke of the potential for more research openings once the University’s Allston science complex opens in 2011. Shifting her focus from the sciences to study...
That's partly due to the fact that while the EPA rates the fuel economy of vehicles on a model-by-model basis, the calculation of CAFE falls to the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration (NHTSA), part of the Department of Transportation. Under the laws that have created and modified CAFE, the NHTSA isn't allowed to revise its tests - meaning it's stuck using tests that haven't really been updated since CAFE was established...
...Smith was so desperate to distance himself from the GOP that he ran ads touting his cooperation with Obama. And now Coleman has a better-than-even chance of returning to Washington, where he will surely rediscover his old party identification. It's an uninspiring but potentially effective political model for back-bench Republican Senators: follow the leaders for five years, then scramble back to the middle before re-election...