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...down at a 13% annual rate, according to the Federal Reserve. Not only are loans harder to come by, but they're also more expensive. That has the potential to slow down economic recovery, since firms that can't borrow often can't expand. Policymakers have responded with a number of programs to boost small-business lending, including an Obama Administration proposal to repurpose $30 billion of bank-bailout money to spur more business lending at community banks...
...pictures of facial expressions and words describing them (happy, angry, sad). The study found that around the onset of puberty (about age 11 for girls and 12 for boys), people take significantly longer to do this easy task. McGivern and his associates attributed the slow pace to the excess number of synapses in the brain at puberty - essentially, too many connections that have yet to be pruned in late adolescence. (See pictures of teens and how they would vote...
...play-at-home websites for game shows to Internet-shopping tie-ins. But the kind of convergence people really want is dishing about Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin's duologue with their Facebook friends. It's doubtful people tuned in by the millions to see the Oscars' interpretative-dance number, in which performers did the robot to the score of Up. Or maybe they did, but to make fun of it together. (In a way, social media are better for bad TV than for good TV, like ketchup on a mediocre burger...
...Fortunately we have a number of weekends coming up for other opportunities to turn in some good performances,” Saretsky said. “It should be a fun season...
...served as a Member of Parliament under the ruling National Democratic Party, said he knew of "more than 50" Sinai Bedouin who were serving in the police or army. But when asked to name one, he couldn't. And when asked to provide a Bedouin soldier's telephone number, he provided his own - a fact that proved embarrassing a moment later when the reporter called...