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...reason for that is clear enough. At a time of extreme stress in global equity and credit markets, many governments have surplus foreign exchange to play with - and because of the falling dollar, they are increasingly interested in investing their cash where it can earn greater returns than U.S. Treasury debt, the traditional safe haven. The largest SWFs - the so-called Super Seven, which includes China, Russia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Norway and two Singapore funds - control up to $1.8 trillion. By 2011, assets under management at SWFs worldwide are projected to grow almost fourfold to nearly $8 trillion, according...
...that a study found that people who take 30-minute naps three times a week are 37% less likely to die from heart disease [Dec. 3]. I would question whether it's solely because blood pressure drops just before you fall asleep. People who work at high-stress jobs are probably too wound up to take a half-hour nap, which says volumes about stress-related hormone levels. It's probably not worth forcing yourself to take a nap to ward off heart disease. A better solution might be to change jobs to reduce stress. Denis Alarie, Timmins, Ontario...
...pull that one off? AB: I can’t say I was expecting to cry but I was not afraid of crying or not crying. I just wanted it to come out truthfully. The way I was breathing, and the coughing, that was enough… The physical stress with thinking of what you’re leaving on the table, dying at 31, it was actually touching...
Still, Pentagon officials made it clear that this was not a political move by the brass - that the military's lack of desire for another conflict and the conclusions of the new NIE are coincidental. They stress that the military focuses on "intentions, not capabilities" when assessing threats, and that the final unclassified portion of the NIE warns that the intelligence community believes "with high confidence that Iran has the scientific, technical and industrial capacity eventually to produce nuclear weapons if it decides...
...model organism whose genome has been studied extensively, and looked for similar gene expression patterns. They found that the first group of parasites corresponded to yeast flourishing in optimal conditions like those grown in culture, the second corresponded to the starvation-response group, and the third corresponded to the stress-response group. In patients, there was no discernible clinical difference between those infected with the first and second parasite groups, but patients with the third type were more likely to have a severe case of malaria with high inflammation and fever. Daily said that the experiment showed that...