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...that MRI studies have cracked open a window on the developing brain, researchers are looking at how the newly detected physiological changes might account for the adolescent behaviors so familiar to parents: emotional outbursts, reckless risk taking and rule breaking, and the impassioned pursuit of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Some experts believe the structural changes seen at adolescence may explain the timing of such major mental illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. These diseases typically begin in adolescence and contribute to the high rate of teen suicide. Increasingly, the wild conduct once blamed on "raging hormones" is being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Teens Tick | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...attractions of this Swedish model is that it reduces so-called "moral hazard" - effectively rewarding poor or reckless risk assessment - by forcing financial institutions that took the highest risks to pay towards their own rescue. And it allows the state to recoup the money that it expends to buy up the bad debt at the core of the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden's Model Approach to Financial Disaster | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...International Relations in Paris. "France has been doing a pretty good job getting with the global program after all. But this crisis is a reminder that French financial institutions - and the wider French economy - are exposed to external forces, including those in a U.S. system we often criticize as reckless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Gloating in France on Finance Crisis | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

Akpan started the Crimson off on a positive note with an early fierce charge toward the goal at 8:18. He effortlessly twisted and maneuvered through the opposition’s defensive midfielders and fullbacks with reckless ease, chipping a perfect goal into the bottom right corner...

Author: By Nico S. Theofanidis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Akpan, Harvard Tame Wildcats at Home | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

...where to assign blame for the ongoing market turmoil, the economists named the usual suspects: reckless mortgage lenders, government mortgage bond insurers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, bond rating agencies, the investment bankers who bought securitized home loans, and the government for failing to properly regulate investment banks and other less transparent securities markets...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Econ Professors Lament Financial Crisis | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

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