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Police officers handed out literature at MBTA stations reminding people to put away valuables such as GPS navigation devices and to wipe the mounting marks left by these devices off their windshields after...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MBTA Crime Rate Hits Record Low | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

Indeed, this idea should even appeal to more conservative bathroom-goers who might assume that higher quality toilet paper is an unnecessary expense. With better toilet paper, we can accomplish with a single transcendent wipe what would have required multiple unsatisfying squares and save a considerable amount of money. The bathroom tissue we currently employ, Georgia Pacific’s “Preference”, is available at 76¢ per roll and Charmin’s “Ultra Soft”, a bathroom tissue befitting a patrician, is a reasonable 83¢ per roll. That extra...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu | Title: Tools of the Stool | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...large spread can effectively wipe out any cost advantages over mutual funds. "You might save 20 basis points [i.e., 0.2 percentage points] on the cost of the ETF, but what if you're paying 200 basis points [2 percentage points] more because of the trading spread?" asks Borek. The spread risk is exacerbated in emerging markets and specialized niches in the global markets, where data are scarce and trading is limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exchange-Traded Funds: The Hidden Risks | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...come when psychiatrists can wipe out phobias at will, like erasing a whiteboard. Who knows? But I suspect that my phobia is a more complicated animal than the ones they worked with at NYU. It goes back a lot further and down a lot deeper than colored cards and electric shocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Overcoming Phobias Can Be So Daunting | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...START treaty will probably skirt this issue by leaving both countries with robust nuclear forces - about 1,600 deployed strategic warheads, down from the 2,200 of the previous treaty, which is still more than enough to wipe each other off the map. But in the Strangelovean world of nuclear deterrence, the slightest threat to parity is a cause for major problems. Early on in the START negotiations last summer, Kristensen says, the Russians balked at a provision that would allow the U.S. to inspect the production facilities of its new RS-24 ICBM because they would not be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Nuclear Arms Pledge Hits Stumbling Block | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

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