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...Last year, Harvard agreed to pay $26.5 million to settle the suit, in addition to a $2 million payment by Shleifer himself, who has denied any wrongdoing. Shleifer reportedly mortgaged his own house in order to pay a portion of the settlement...
...Like every other new diamond mine of consequence, it was co-opted by De Beers. Trouble erupted almost immediately. The cartel's directors started telling Argyle to stockpile a good portion of its diamonds to counterbalance a wave of smuggled stones coming in from the Angolan civil war. The agreed price per carat also dropped from $12 to around $9 in the first year of the partnership. By 1996 the Australians had had enough. Argyle would try to sell directly to Indian manufacturers through a Bombay office. The cartel tried a power play: it dumped $400 million of cheap rough...
...Most of it is portion control," she answered. "Yes, I eat my own food. I do. But I don't eat a lot of it. And as you see in watching Everyday Italian, I take those little salad plates--you know, appetizer-sized plates--and that's the amount of food I eat ... And I eat multiple meals throughout the day. And I do work out--a novelty, I know. And it's also--my mother's tiny--it's also partly genetics...
Still, nearly everyone has eaten to the point of vomiting, yet many don't learn portion control. After their youthful bingeing, De Laurentiis and Goin intuited another important lesson: that some "cookies" were far better than others. "If I am really starving, I will eat airplane food," says Goin, grimacing. "But I would rather not eat the macadamia chicken on the airplane and [instead] get to have that supergood bread slathered with lardo," she adds, referring to the whipped cured pork fat served at the Manhattan restaurant Del Posto, where we were dining. Which suggests a new kind of diet...
...erections. And in September 2005, Goldstein, who is also editor in chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, published similar results from a study he had conducted. The subjects, men in their 30s and 40s, experienced no blood flow to the penis as soon as they straddled the protruding portion of a bike saddle. "What you're worried about is that the pressure will cause what we call endothelial injury, which is a harbinger of the beginning of localized atherosclerosis," says Goldstein. "Over time, that can develop into permanent impotence...