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...There are people in the animal rights movement worried that if Prop 2 passes, it will condone the practice of factory farming. How do you react? Social change occurs on an incremental pathway. For those who want to see more people adopt a vegetarian diet and not have animals slaughtered for food at all - I do believe that this discussion about Prop 2 builds important awareness about our responsibilities to animals...
...throwing money at the economy's problems is not without risk, and it will be interesting to see whether the Fed is able to react quickly enough in the other direction when the economy finally takes a turn for the better, and avert the inflationary spiral that Bernanke's critics have been warning about all along...
...more foraging by one of his graduate students unearthed a tiny bottle of gas that Mazur himself had used when he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. Had the graduate student known that this gas was particularly stable—unlikely to react with other chemicals—he might not have used...
...northern Mississippi, it's less helpful to know his party affiliation than to watch him deliver a 15-minute soliloquy on the glories of fried green tomatoes over lunch in Columbus or work the crowd at the annual Good Ole Boys and Gals political barbecue in Oxford or react to the news that squirrel dumplings would be served at a cookout in Yalobusha County. "Honey child!" Childers shouted with glee. "I think it's fair to say," he told me later, "that I'm a squirrel-dumpling kind...
...levels of testosterone during bull markets and of cortisol during volatility. Cortisol helps the body deal with threatening situations. But prolonged exposure to it, as during a lengthy downturn, makes people irrationally fearful, so when confronted with neutral situations--say, that their spouse would like the leaves raked--they react as if threatened. In other words, men can get funny when they're losing money. Even those who aren't traders...