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...fall? People have been anxiously wondering as they watch the plunging stock market. But increasingly the same question is being asked about another crucial figure: the price of oil. It has plummeted nearly 40% in just three months, from about $147 a barrel in July to below $83 on Friday, with no obvious bottom in sight. If that sounds good, you are probably a driver who winces these days at filling your gas tank. But the downward spiral could mean trouble for oil-rich countries and for the environment...
...desire to apply them to the wider world may be growing. Diamond belongs to a group called Rabbis for Obama, and says that in light of the financial crisis, its members have begun to discuss how the old wisdom could mediate the new mess. The question these days, he says, is not whether Jews can be induced to be more ethical than the market, but whether the market can be made more ethical. "I think classic rabbinic tradition is certainly pro-regulatory," he says. Meanwhile, Yeshiva's Levine calls in his journal article for what he describes as "an incentive...
...presentation lasted less than an hour, but the question session afterwards took almost as long. Audience members raised detailed empirical challenges to her conclusions about the Pakistani case...
...story, "Journal Integrity Questioned," stated that one of the academics in question, Donald C. Light, hired an attorney, Alan C. Milstein. In fact, Milstein was not hired by Light, but volunteered to take the case and did not charge...
...using this principle to describe people based on skin color is inappropriate, even when it is helpful information.” The researchers based their study on the board game “Guess Who?” The players were presented with a set of pictures and asked questions to determine the randomly-chosen picture of the other player. “In our version, half of the participants were white and half were African Americans,” Norton added. “The question we faced was whether a person would use race in their description...