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...recent Goldman Sachs report estimates that most investment banks believe bonds like Jupiter are worth 40% less than what was paid for them, or 60¢ for every dollar invested. But given how many of Jupiter's bonds have gone bad, you could just as easily guess that it is worth 41¢ on the dollar. And that might be generous. A top bond trader who looked at Jupiter for TIME said that on the basis of where loan defaults are headed and the loans Jupiter holds, even the best part of the bond could be worth as little...
...provide much refuge. Work on No Line on the Horizon began in 2007, when the band decamped to Morocco with Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, the men who oversaw U2's 1980s transformation from anthem singers to makers of textured, daring rock. As a hedge, the band also paid visits to Dublin and London to check in with Steve Lillywhite, who helped U2 crank out some of its muscular early and recent hits. (Most bands would have to take out a second mortgage to cover the per diem for just one of these producers...
...more and more schools set up peanut-free zones and as food manufacturers add warning labels that their products might contain particles of peanuts, soy or other allergens, the abundance of caution is starting to trigger a backlash. Given all the attention paid in recent years to food allergies, the number of people in the U.S. who die from them - 15 to 20 a year - is relatively small. More people die each year from bee stings. "But we don't remove flowers from schools or playgrounds," Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, commented recently...
...Highest-paid private-college employees...
...Named auxiliary bishop of St. Louis in 2001 after another priest, former Archbishop Rembert Weakland, resigned after acknowledging that the archdiocese paid a $450,000 out-of-court settlement to a man who claimed Weakland had sexually assaulted...