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...order to discourage roosting, city administrators in Tempe, Ariz., tried lathering their downtown trees with a concord grape coating that made the birds throw up. Other solutions are more violent. A few years ago, in an odd reversal of stereotypes, the University of Texas in Austin bought shotguns to scare off the grackles, while A&M, famed for its Corps of Cadets, opted for a recording of a shotgun blast echoing through the barracks' courtyards periodically, Gayle recalled...
...baht. Coming just three months after a military junta seized power, the move spooked foreign investors and sent Thai stocks plunging nearly 15% in a day before the government partially reversed itself. Yet there was no regional domino effect. Some Asian markets dipped in reaction to the Thai scare, but they quickly rebounded. What has changed? Among other factors, Asian governments today have far more balanced accounts, higher foreign-exchange reserves and less debt, while the region's corporations are now better financed. "There was no worry of contagion," says Sukhbir Khanijoh, senior securities analyst for Kasikorn Securities in Bangkok...
...political France that is on another planet. We have a Communist Party that continues to create problems, even if it isn't very representative. We have a Socialist Party that still dreams of a socialist economy. We have unions that represent just 8% of the workers but who who scare all governments. And we have a right that doesn't dare assume its role. It's surreal...
...long-term consequences are insidious as well as tragic and even relate to the ability of the U.S. to prevail against the jihadists. Not only does malaria sap worker productivity and scare away business investment, but it also, paradoxically, increases the rate of population growth. Instead of having two or three children, couples in a malarial region often choose to have six or seven--unsure how many will survive...
...increased suicide risk on medication intended for patients under the age of 24. Previously, the FDA had only warned about this risk for those under age 18. Richard D. Kadison, chief of mental health services at UHS, wrote in an e-mail that the FDA report should not scare people away from seeking treatment. “[In] large literature reviews the actual number of suicide attempts and completed suicides is lower in people treated with medication,” Kadison wrote. “The early risk is probably due to transient side effects of increased energy and jitteriness...