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...Bear's Mighty Fall I read with dismay Justin Fox's "The Bear Trap," about the collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns [March 31]. The market crisis is especially unsettling because it is self-inflicted. Over the past two decades, through the crippling process of outsourcing, we have relinquished our leads in manufacturing, engineering and technology. If we lose our status as the world's financial beacon, we will surely inch closer to becoming a nation of two dimensions: a bloated military power that consumes voraciously and produces little. Robert Winkelmann, Amityville, New York...
...gave a good fight and played strong and have to prepare for the upcoming games against UPenn and Princeton” Schoen said. Harvard is set to play Penn on Sunday April 6 in Pennsylvania. Penn will be a strong opponent for Harvard. With a very good zone-trap defense, the Quakers will definitely push pressure and push the Crimson to speed things up. “Penn will test all the things we need to work on,” Bobzin said. “Especially speeding up our game mentally and physically...
...Sometimes there’s nothing quite as selfish as generosity,” he said. But despite the knowledge that generosity brings more happiness, why are people more inclined to spend money on themselves? Norton says that money has the power to “trap you.” “Once you get money, you start thinking less about how to use it for others,” he said. As for college students, a demographic not known for having much disposable income, Ben-Shahar said that these principles have implications beyond just money...
...Many Democrats still worry that the Treasury plan could prove a preemptive anti-regulatory trap - hardly the first time Bush has pulled off such a gambit. On fuel efficiency standards, Bush and the auto industry insisted on holding out against tough new restrictions until it became clear that the House and Senate could produce a veto-proof majority. At that point, Bush and the industry backed lesser standards, which eventually became law. More recently, Bush intervened in mid-March to soften new anti-ozone regulations after the EPA had concluded that tough new standards were necessary...
...Hair is a good trap for all those things flowing through the blood system," says Ehleringer. Traces of the food, water and air we breathe show up in our hair (as do drugs and heavy metals). Some 85% of the variation in isotope levels in a person's hair is explained by variations in drinking water isotope levels in areas they spent time. This "isotope signature" from water is not complicated by other beverages because many of them are made using local water...