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What a difference a financial crisis makes. Mack has spent much of the past year putting Morgan Stanley on safer ground. He has dramatically lowered borrowing and shut down the firm's proprietary trading desk. He changed Morgan from a Wall Street dealer to a bank holding company, and more than tripled the firm's deposit base, which is a safer source of capital. And in a major break from the bank's 70-year history he de-emphasized investment banking as the driver of Morgan Stanley's profits. In June, he completed the purchase of a majority stake...
...recently. But O'Leary's Global Equity Income Fund has sunk more than most. The average stock fund is down 12% in the past year, according to research firm Morningstar. Compared with other equity-income-fund managers, O'Leary has done even worse. Those funds, generally considered to be safer investments, on average have fallen 10%, or less than half the plunge of O'Leary's fund. And O'Leary is not doing any better since the market turned up in early March. The average equity income fund has rebounded sharply, up nearly 49% since stocks reached their...
...genome could result in a variety of potential problems, including the formation of tumors and uncontrolled cell growth. Melton's group, as well as those in other stem-cell labs around the world, are working to substitute these dangerous genes and viruses with chemicals that might prove safer. (See pictures of the swine flu virus...
...Thirty years ago, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident spurred Congress and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to make nuclear power plants safer. Similarly, the Kingston spill has revealed a need for government action and greater responsibility from coal-burning utilities. The coal industry must be pressured by the public and elected officials into becoming as “clean” as it can be. Despite what the industry may publicly proclaim, there is no such thing as clean coal, at least not yet. Nobody knows this better than the people of Kingston, Tennessee...
...moral superiority about our naturally thin lips or un-home-runny arms is nothing more than a silly, momentary discomfort with technology improving our bodies, which will go away when these procedures are cheaper and safer. I for one will proudly take steroids when they finally make ones that don't ruin your health, necessitate a shot, or require you to keep going to the gym after taking them. I pretty much stopped caring what I looked like once I got married...