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...Treasury program that saves the world," says department spokeswoman Michele Davis. "That's not going to happen." But there is a unifying theme that explains much of what the big brains at the Fed and Treasury have been doing. And the efforts this week fit with the pattern...
...little, if any, evidence of that. Automatic Data Processing, which handles paychecks for 400,000 small businesses, dips into its clients' bank accounts to pay their employees. There has been a slight uptick in the number of times there haven't been ready funds, but at this point, that pattern isn't any different from what ADP has observed in previous economic slowdowns...
...women in the study had already gone to school and made their career choices. Some of them changed jobs after they transitioned, and some stayed in the same jobs. Some were out to their employers; others started completely new lives as members of the opposite sex. Regardless, the overall pattern was very clear: newly minted women were punished, and newly minted men got a little bump...
...What have been the most egregious distortions in the campaign so far? Just about anything McCain has done on Obama's tax policies. We've called that a pattern of misrepresentation and it's continuing and it's working. I see that a couple of polls show 50% or more people think Obama's going to increase their taxes, when in fact he's going to cut them for 80-90% of people, or so he says...
...with planning and judgment." While adults make few errors in assessing the photos, kids under 14 tend to make mistakes. In particular, they identify fearful expressions as angry, confused or sad. By following the same kids year after year, Yurgelun-Todd has been able to watch their brain-activity pattern - and their judgment - mature. Fledgling physiology, she believes, may explain why adolescents so frequently misread emotional signals, seeing anger and hostility where none exists. Teenage ranting ("That teacher hates me!") can be better understood in this light...