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...Cassidy expects. But even under the government's baseline scenario for the banking industry, which was released as part of the stress test, U.S. banks could have as much as $84 billion in losses from commercial real estate. The government's adverse-case scenario suggests losses could reach as high as $200 billion...
...though - in fact, they carefully include a disclaimer that "we are not advocating this here." Even if they were, though, and even if paleontologists all agreed on the matter, Ida could at best be considered a first step on an evolutionary pathway that took another 40 million years to reach the divergence point between chimps and our earliest hominid ancestors. (See the secrets of London's buried bones...
...shifts is the key to patient safety. Dr. Kenneth Polonsky, chairman of the Department of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, who co-wrote an editorial accompanying Nuckols' study in the New England Journal, says that while some studies show a correlation between fatigue and mistakes, not all reach the same conclusion. What's more, Nuckols says, studies aimed at determining the cause of a mistake are inherently complicated: they require highly skilled researchers to pinpoint exactly what went wrong and when, and many rely on self-reporting from residents who, for obvious reasons, would sooner attribute a mistake...
...soldier and the lawyer may both love this country with equal passion," Barack Obama said in his elegant Notre Dame commencement speech, "and yet reach very different conclusions on the specific steps needed to protect us from harm." You can say that again. In recent weeks, the President and just about every other major politician from both parties have been boggled by soldier-lawyer disputes. Some have been small: whether or not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was adequately briefed on the CIA's use of waterboarding in 2002. Others cut to the core of asymmetrical warfare, especially the question...
...community. “The most reassuring thing that happened was the response of our house masters,” said Michael J. Chance ’10. “Their response was a lot more reassuring than anything higher up.” But University administrators did reach out. Around 7:45 p.m., three hours after the shooting, University President Drew G. Faust arrived at Kirkland to speak with students—a decision that was lauded by House Master Tom Conley at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Conley himself held...