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Nevertheless, all those mortgages that started the problem are still worth something. House prices are headed downward, but they're not headed to zero. What turned a simple price decline into a crisis that killed Bear Stearns was the way many financial firms (hedge funds and investment banks, especially) generate their profits: by making bets with borrowed money. To borrow that money, they have to put up collateral--for example, mortgage securities. Lately, many firms have been simultaneously beset by bets gone bad and skittish lenders' calling in loans or demanding more collateral...
...Information Technology reports a continuous effort to fix wireless problems on campus, Harvard students still gripe. The 2006-2007 Annual Undergraduate Computer Survey, based on 2951 responses, shows a noticeable difference in satisfaction between the River Houses and the Quad (for once Quadlings win out), while freshmen reported a zero percent dissatisfaction rate.Those in Mass. Hall are better connected than most—43 percent report they are very satisfied, 43 percent are satisfied, and 14 percent are neutral with their wireless connections.In contrast, the River Houses seem to still be awaiting a flood of signal. Adams House...
...that hackers could intercept patient information and reprogram the device, potentially endangering the patient by sending additional electrical signals to the heart. The researchers presented their findings last Wednesday, in anticipation of the publication of their paper, “Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses.” The study focused on the Medtronic Maximo, an IMD with wireless capabilities. These typically work over short distances and allow physicians to monitor the patients. “The wireless features of these devices are safety features. They provide the ability for the device...
...definitely very exciting to say, okay, we have a developing country, what should the tariff be? Should it be zero? No, because we need some tax revenue,” Foote said...
...their predictions—just a couple dollars, he said, whatever’s “enough to matter.” Some of his colleagues bet there was a 99 percent likelihood of discovering weapons, Allison said. He remembers only one colleague who said there was zero chance that anyone would find chemical or biological weapons in Iraq: Molecular and Cellular Biology professor Matthew S. Meselson. Meselson did not return a request for comment. NOT QUITE ‘VINDICATED’Unlike most of his Belfer Center colleagues, Ashton B. Carter had already seen all the cards...