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...emergency loans made from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, many smaller banks remain in crisis. So far this year the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has shut down 133 banks that succumbed to a tidal wave of loan defaults. "Given the state of the markets there's only so much we can do," to increase lending while limiting risk says one industry official...
...study's authors also found that women who believed they had received a testosterone supplement - whether they had or not - made much greedier and more self-serving offers, suggesting that the assumption of testosterone's influence became an enabler of antisocial behavior. "It's not the hormone but the myth surrounding the hormone that induced aggressiveness," Naef suggests. (Read "Is a Female Track Star a Man? No Simple Answer...
...decision-making, told Naturenews.com that the research has profound implications for neuroeconomics, the study of how biology influences markets, by showing that "not only does biology affect economic behavior - so does belief." But John Coates, a former Wall Street trader and researcher at Cambridge University, warns against extrapolating too much from the study. Coates' own measurements of testosterone levels in the saliva of male traders found a link between higher levels of the hormone and risky behavior. He says there is a "dose-response curve" for testosterone, which means that a small dose of the hormone might result...
Which pretty much means that no one in Eliot House is going to sleep. Ever. But hey, it's exams period: no one else is sleeping either...
...scholars, it may be facing an uphill battle. The AAA says the program violates its code of ethics - a sort of Hippocratic oath in which anthropologists vow to do no harm. Two years ago, the AAA condemned the HTS program, but this month's 72-page report goes into much greater detail about the potential for the military to misuse information that social scientists gather. Some anthropologists involved in the report say it's already happening. David Price, a professor of anthropology at St. Martin's University in Washington state and one of the co-authors of the AAA report...