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...debate sharpens in the U.S. Congress over Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's proposed $700 billion bailout package, Washington policymakers would be wise to lift their gaze beyond the Beltway and take a look at Sweden. That country has already been in this particular policy hell, during a banking crisis of its own in the early 1990s. "The basic conditions are the same," says Bo Lundgren, Sweden's Finance Minister at the time. "There was the same anxiety and the same need for confidence." He's one of a number of Swedish financial types who have been shuttling...
...harmony when peoples and cultures mix. While writing Sea of Poppies, he scoured old dictionaries and almanacs and filled the novel with dizzying dialogues incorporating bastardized Hindustani and lascar words that he claims entered common English parlance in the 19th century. Each character talks with his or her own particular style and peculiar vocabulary. ("Just eat the bish, you gudda," one sailor scolds another. "He was only foozlowing.") The book offers no glossary and Ghosh offers no apology for the difficulties some readers may have. "The first aspect of India's reality is that it's intensely multilingual," he says...
...University, he said that it would be more appropriate for the actual faculty, rather than an “awkward venue” of administrators, to award the necessary PI rights. The second part of the proposed change automatically extends approval for professors with PI rights at a particular division within Harvard to the entire University—for example, a faculty member with PI rights at Harvard Medical School would be able to submit a research proposal to the Harvard School of Public Health. Under previous rules, the individual would have had to request permission for submission...
...Each cell has a particular tuning, which means that it will respond to some odors and not others,” Wilson said. “We compare the way that neurons are tuned to odors in different parts of the olfactory system and try to figure out how that tuning arises...
...false claims about their own records. Broadcasters are actually obligated to run their ads, even those known to be false. Under the Federal Communications Act, a station can have a blanket policy of refusing all ads from all candidates. But they cannot single out and decline to air a particular commercial whose content they know...