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...When people look back on the near-collapse of the banking system they may say that the Congress and Henry Paulson threw enough money into the path of the oncoming failure of the credit system to slow it down so that the government could properly go through the process of guaranteeing parts of the balance sheets of firms including Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC). The initial TARP may also have provided time for the new Administration to put together its widely hailed bank "stress test" program meant to determine which of the big financial institutions have dysentery...
With Advising Fortnight nearly halfway over, Harvard freshman are now officially on the path to picking a concentration. But for the class of 2012, the choices available are a little different from years past—life sciences majors will find themselves with a new concentration to consider, while potential Classics concentrators will enjoy reduced requirements. Human Development and Regenerative Biology, approved by the Faculty Council last November, is the newest undergraduate concentration. A part of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, HDRB which will become Harvard’s ninth undergraduate concentration in the life sciences...
...overweight. Those figures are still low compared with industrialized nations like the U.S., where more than a third of all adults are considered obese (a condition defined by the ratio of weight to height). But Malta says the trend is clear and that Brazil is slowly on the same path. In 1975, similar studies showed that only 2.8% of men and 7.8% of women were obese; just seven years ago, the numbers were 8.8% and 12.7%. (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...plan unveiled by Aso on Thursday. His strategy aims to create as many as 2 million jobs and as much as $597 billion in domestic demand over the next three years, with additional gains though 2010. The country's leaders are beginning to realize Japan is on the wrong path. Its flagship manufacturing giants have been pummeled by the crash in worldwide consumer demand. Exports fell by nearly 50% year-over-year in January and February; the economy as a whole is expected to shrink by 6.6% in 2009. "Japan must reinvent its export-driven growth model," Aso said Thursday...
...government: minister of the economy, minister of finance and head of the Financial Services Agency, which oversees banking. Facing what he calls "the biggest economic crisis since the Second World War," Yosano, 70, peers into the ever-deepening chasm that is the Japanese economy and tries to construct a path to the other side...