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...Budget estimates are wrong, so are the "stress test" assumptions for the government's new program to determine which banks are in reasonable shape to make it through the recession and which are not. The test is based on unemployment reaching as high as 10%. If the number is likely to go well beyond that, the premise for evaluating the strength of key pillars of the financial system is deeply flawed before the evaluation process has been finished. The Administration wants to set measurements for whether large American private banks need to raise money. If 10% unemployment is a critical...
...because of public outrage, not laws, that Dr. Steinberg and his team suspended their eye and hair color selection program. The United States currently has no laws prohibiting cosmetic trait selection; Dr. Steinberg describes the field as “an uncharted road.” But now that designer babies are a very real possibility, it is important that we act now to prevent a human catastrophe rather than wait until Babies “R” Us becomes more than a brand for baby clothes...
...contenders—from city, county, state, federal, and tribal government agencies—were chosen after several rounds of evaluation by policy experts on the basis of four criteria: novelty, significance, effectiveness and transferability, said Emily C. Kaplan, the competition’s program assistant...
...international security environment in Northeast Asia. Although the test itself was a failure—according to the New York Times, U.S. Northern Command and Japan’s Ministry of Defense, the missile fell apart in the Western Pacific—North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and its already extant launch capability should be worrisome for all concerned parties in Northeast Asia. Nevertheless, we are reassured by the Obama administration’s handling of the crisis and hope to see continued efforts in furthering nuclear nonproliferation as a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy...
...test is disheartening, we are encouraged to see that the United States’ alliances with Japan and South Korea remain strong. Even more importantly, this crisis has seen Japanese and South Korean leaders unite to make a strong statement on the continued unacceptability of the North Korean nuclear program. Given the historical animosity between the two countries, it is important that these relationships remain strong for the continued stability of the region during the twenty-first century...