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...parent's nightmare. But before you panic, consider this: U.S. and E.U. health and environment authorities still stand behind polycarbonate plastic, putting the safe level of daily bisphenol A exposure at more than 25 times the levels found in baby bottles. (The Canadian agency, Health Canada, is currently reviewing its bisphenol A policy; conclusions...
...panic. Above all, remain calm. Or if you are already calm--in fact, I see a few of you dozing in the back row there--then wake up! An enormous convulsion is taking place in the Internet economy. Microsoft, the world's largest software company, wants to buy Yahoo!, which is (in its own words) "the world's largest global online network of integrated services," whatever that means, for $44.6 billion. Yahoo! is resisting. It's a complex, many-sided deal with repercussions in all directions. What does it mean for you? How will the world be different? Will your...
...Comfortable,” he’s approaching his next book about “pessimism and melancholy” with—appropriately enough—dread. “I’m currently facing it with white-knuckle terror, and eventually the panic will fester into a boil that will goad me into action,” Rakoff says.To convey its tone, he cites a YouTube clip of his favorite depressing song. The video sets images from the Great Depression and the First World War against Bing Crosby’s rendition...
...know the depth and breadth of the losses. Indeed, banks don't even know how to value a lot of the paper on their books these days. What we, and they, do know is that ordinary young traders can see their positions go south and are liable to panic and mess up in ways that keep pushing the decimal point over to the right - without their "superiors" knowing about it until it's way too late. Nick Leeson taught us that in the '90s, and now, in just the same way, so has Jérôme Kerviel...
...quite hang with the big boys. Following this up-and-down season, New Yorkers might say, was more exciting than enjoying their opponents’ apparently monotone success. But the Patriots—and their fans along with them—have had their moments of panic. As a few other editors of this newspaper can testify, I was prostrate on the floor and nearly hysterical in the final seconds of the Pats’ dramatic 27-24 win over the Baltimore Ravens in early December. Once I recovered from hyperventilating, I realized for the first time that an undefeated...