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...releasing her fifth book - co-authored with autism specialist Dr. Jerry Kartzinel, titled Healing and Preventing Autism. The book is awfully smart when it comes to hardheaded advice for families trying to heal - or at least draw out - an autistic child. But McCarthy goes soft when she starts exploring the causes of autism, making the usual charges against the usual suspects, including nutrition, environmental toxins and, as always, vaccines. McCarthy and TIME science editor Jeffrey Kluger sparred over the causes of autism and the safety of vaccines. (See the year in medicine...
...Treasury Department's program to buy toxic loans could cost banks as much as $210 billion. That's the losses the financial firms will book from selling poorly performing loans as part of the government's recently announced Public-Private Investment Plan. What's more, if a recently proposed accounting rule change is not made, PPIP's bottom line effect on the banks could be more than triple that...
...largely overlooked is what the bailout would really cost the banks. Yes, banks would get cash for loans they can't sell without government assistance. But these same banks would also be forced to book a large accounting loss on the sale of the loans, further eroding common equity-a key measure watched by stockholders...
...Octomom case proved that private regulation alone has never been sufficient," says Debora Spar, president of Barnard College and author of The Baby Business, a book about the fertility industry. Both Spar and Schneider say the CDC should maintain a mandatory national registry...
Well, at least they are book smart...