Word: protectant
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...stronger position than a decade ago. Its financial institutions seemed sturdy, with a mere $70 million of those toxic mortgage-backed securities that doomed banks in the U.S., while the central bank was well stocked with $240 billion of hard-currency reserves - more than sufficient, economists believed, to protect the economy from any external shocks. "We didn't need a special spotlight," says Yi Jong Goo, standing commissioner at the Financial Services Commission (FSC), the government agency that oversees the country's finance industry. They got one anyway. International bankers and investors yanked money from emerging markets worldwide. South Korea...
...final line of Kinsley's essay was telling. He implied that unless we spread the wealth around, we'll turn into a Colombia or Mexico, where people "live behind locked gates and hire guards to protect their family from kidnapping." Is Kinsley suggesting that to ensure their own safety the better-off should, via the government, pay protection money to the less well off? This would be playing with public money a similar game to the one rich people in banana republics play with their personal money. Mark A. Mendlovitz, Los Angeles...
Confounding the results even more is the fact that calcium and vitamin D supplementation is now routine therapy for postmenopausal women to protect against bone fractures. So about 15% of the women in the placebo group were allowed to continue taking their vitamin D supplements for bone health (some were taking up to 600 IUs per day), which could explain why there was little difference between the two groups in breast-cancer rates. "This is a potential problem that confounds the results of this particular trial," says Dr. Powel Brown, a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine...
...government never defined an age limit. Since July, 30 children, most of them teens or preteens, have been abandoned at Nebraska hospitals. Four children were even driven from other states and left by their parents. Oddly enough, the law has had no effect on those it attempted to protect: no infants have been abandoned...
...disagreements can arise when it comes to how to put net neutrality into practice. One question is whether Internet service providers can discriminate based on network service needs. For instance, said Palfrey, Harvard’s network might need to limit the flow of some information in order to protect some uses of the network against others. “You could imagine a world in which everyone was trying to watch movies at the same time and no one could access their homework at that time,” said Palfrey. While Zimmerman said that the Internet...