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...Economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein, who now heads the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, think we should go even further. In their book Nudge, they sketch a system in which once a year credit-card companies would be required to break out all the fees, interest and other charges customers paid over the past 12 months. That information would come on a person's statement as well as electronically for easier comparison shopping. "By knowing their precise usage and fee payments, customers would get a better sense of what they are paying for," write...
...FTSE 100, an index of Britain's leading shares. In the opening quarter of 2009, AIM listed just five new firms, raising a meager $4.5 million in the process. In the same period last year, 32 new companies pocketed 100 times that amount. "To all intents and purposes," Richard Thornhill, capital markets director at Deloitte, said in the firm's quarterly analysis of AIM last month, "the fundraising market for new companies on AIM does not exist...
...certain extent, since physicians are increasingly aware that acupuncture does have physiological effects on the body. "There is a lot of data now that acupuncture can have an effect on the nervous system, and that the nervous system then has effects on other systems in the body," says Dr. Richard Nahin, acting director of the division of extramural research at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine...
...illustrate the war in Afghanistan, why choose a soldier who is, indefensibly, smoking? During World War II, the cigarette companies, aided by the media, helped create a culture in which soldiers and smoking went hand in hand. I thought we had moved far beyond such an ill-founded association. Richard Rivenes, Sugar Land, Texas...
...Gene Roddenberry was fond of moral and political lessons declaimed by actors in pastel polyesters; that was, after all, the late 1960s, an epoch so distant that the word irony hadn't yet been invented. Solemn homilies had to be replaced by gritty action, and thinky by feelie. (Read Richard Corliss' reviews of the original Star Trek TV series, season by season...