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...factor that may contribute to some problems that might arise in some people," says Markus Ullsperger, a co-author of the Science paper, based at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne. "I think you can compensate for many things without even noticing." In fact, a huge number of people have the genotype that Ullsperger studied, and never have trouble learning from their mistakes: About 30% of Europeans have the allele, according to the German researchers. (Comprehensive worldwide statistics don't exist...
...Clinton is merely voicing concerns shared by others. In Europe, where the concept of "national champions" in a variety of industries is still taken seriously, some of the countries that have established huge SWFs, such as China and Russia, are not necessarily "friendlies, as far as the West is concerned," as one U.S. Congressional staffer puts it. Even U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, an avowed free trader, has acknowledged that government investment funds could use "the vast amounts of covert information" that their spy agencies collect, making that "the ultimate inside-trading tool...
...Despite creating ripples in the business world of late, India was nearly last in your competitiveness ranking. This is because India has not bridged the huge gap between the haves and the have-nots. Countries like India should emphasize economic equality so that they can climb the global business ladder. K. Chidanand Kumar, Bangalore, India
...while it looks as if his tenure as Treasury Secretary would be remembered chiefly for his repeated and apparently fruitless trips to China to persuade authorities there to do something about their huge trade surpluses with the U.S. Now it's becoming clear that Henry Paulson's legacy will be determined instead by his success or failure in navigating the financial crisis that began earlier this year in the U.S. subprime-mortgage market and has since spread around the globe...
...problem, of course. As Chayes says, "expanding in an active theater of war is an increasingly tricky notion." At the moment, Arghand relies on the generosity of the Canadian army, which lets Chayes use its post office for shipping. A commercial air-freight service, she says, would give a huge boost to the growing number of Afghan traders who want to export. It's a classic catch-22: freight companies shy away from Afghanistan because it's so unstable, but stability will come only when Afghanistan's economy improves, which will require more investment, such as freight services...