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...that the deal conveniently earns BofA the political goodwill it will need if it ever wants to expand its consumer-banking business. (The bank already holds close to the federal limit of 10% of the nation's deposits.) Lewis says his motivation is much more straightforward: to complete his vision of a truly national bank serving every financial need that any American might have, by adding the one missing piece - mortgages...
Putin comes across as a leader of great character and vision. In years to come, the Putin era will be a case study of how to use oil riches. Surely many oil-producing countries in the Middle East can learn valuable lessons about ways to use petrodollars that don't involve supporting terrorist organizations. Sudarshan Kumar Singh, NAINITAL, INDIA...
...Putin has a strategic vision for his country, as Henry Kissinger noted in your interview. While Putin's place in history is still a matter of speculation, the resurgence of Russia is not. It isn't clear whether Russia will become a full-fledged democracy, but it is already much freer than countries like China. It is not by chance that svoboda - freedom - is a much celebrated word in Russia today. Pedro Paulo A. Funari, HEAD, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES, STATE UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS, BRAZIL...
...issue arrived just in time for Christmas. While I admire 10 Questions subject Richard Branson as an adventurer and businessman, I think you overdid it with the picture. Branson looked like a Western vision of Christ: long, flowing hair; beard; eyes raised to heaven. All he lacked was a crown of thorns. Gerald White, PORT ORCHARD, WASH...
...leaky plastic," which later became the basis for the implantable, time-release contraceptive Norplant. Not only did Folkman's work on angiogenesis benefit cancer patients, but the same principles are now leading to novel treatments for reviving dying heart tissue, restoring circulation to tissues crippled by diabetes and improving vision in patients with macular degeneration. His theories may yet impact the treatment of other conditions, including obesity: "More recently, he had the idea that fat cells relied on blood vessels just like tumors, so you could control obesity by using blood vessel-growth inhibitors," says Li, who was inspired...