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Ever since the euro was introduced in 1999, financial experts have predicted that it would lead to the sweeping, Continent-wide consolidation of many European industries, particularly the crowded banking sector. The dream was that a single European currency would leap over national priorities and prompt banks to reach across borders for merger partners, the better to compete with America's megabanks. But a funny thing happened on the way to banking consolidation: nothing. Except for a few small deals, such as the 2000 takeovers of Bank Austria by Munich-based HVB, and Unidanmark by Swedish-Finnish lender MeritaNordbanken, banks...
What they discovered is that modern stresses prompt complex reactions beyond the simple fight-or-flight response--the primordial motivator that sends your heart racing and pumps up your blood pressure. In particular, stress triggers a variety of changes in the immune system--some beneficial, some decidedly less so--depending on how long the stress lasts and whether there is an end in sight. To help make sense of it all, Miller and Segerstrom divided the modern universe of stressful situations into several major categories...
...addition to concerns about their role in the process, Riverside residents have criticized Harvard for what they describe as unfair tactics during the negotiations. They say the University was not prompt in its responses to neighbors’ requests, delaying the process at the end and leaving the residents without enough time to study the agreement carefully before they had to make a decision...
...slightly baffling defense, the White House persistently insisted that Karen Ryan really was a freelance reporter and not, despite all indications, an actress. Unfortunately for Karen and her budding press career—and for the White House and its rapidly diminishing credibility—a prompt investigation by the Columbia Journalism Review quickly proved otherwise. More predictably, Administration officials insisted that all the fuss was for nothing: the videos were simply objective and informative pieces, meant to help educate Americans about the changes in Medicare and how they could best take advantage of their new prescription drug benefits...
...what can we do to take back our inboxes? On the technical side of things, Harvard has given us access to some of the best (though still imperfect) spam filtering tools—you can enable the ominously named SpamAssassin for your inbox by typing blockmail at the fas% prompt instead of pine (or, for those of you with no idea what I’m talking about, by going to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/computing/myaccount/). These tools learn from the spam they receive, so they’re always improving as they play a never-ending tit-for-tat with...