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...year-olds.") Even David Moldawer, the associate editor who helped sign Hutchins to St. Martin's dismisses novel podcasting's growth. "It's a very small community," Moldawer, who now works for Penguin Books, told TIME. "I think the podcasting thing in general has definitely flattened out." Audio-type books require a longer commitment than reading a book, he adds, and sifting the wheat from the chaff is a time-consuming process...
...There's little hope that the type of shares the government is buying in banks as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will plug the hole in the banking system's bucket. Paul Miller, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets who has written a number of reports on the capital issues of banks, says the only way to solve the problem is for the government to stop buying preferred shares and start taking direct ownership stakes. Of course, the issue with that approach is that the problem at the banks is so large, Uncle...
...firms leading the charge to capital-light banking was Bank of America (BofA). Starting in 1993, a predecessor firm became one of the first banks to develop and embrace computer models that were supposed to improve a bank's ability to determine the risk of a particular type of loan. After a merger in 1998 that formed the bank, BofA officials often argued to investors and regulators that these new advanced risk controls meant the bank needed to carry less capital per loan. The officials also frequently fought regulations that would boost capital requirements for them and other banks...
These troubles are not new. The National Transportation Safety Board first investigated the medical-helicopter industry's crash epidemic in 1988. It found that low visibility, often caused by bad weather, accounted for 61% of all crashes. "Weather-related accidents are the most common and the most serious type of accident experienced by EMS helicopters," the report found, "and are also the most easily prevented...
...August Melton bypasses stem cells altogether and transforms a type of mouse pancreatic cell that does not produce insulin into one that does...