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...months, and Japan and its allies will once again push for an end to the commercial ban - an appeal the Science analysis significantly undermines. But one fact of the Japanese argument is undeniable: the world's commercial fisheries are in serious trouble, and they're getting worse. In new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Feb. 12, the marine ecologist William Cheung announced that climate change would have a devastating impact on the world's commercial fish and shellfish populations, including tuna, herring and prawns. Fish would flee toward...
...must be more publicly disputed. The court did well to realize that, as of yet, there is no verifiable link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Indeed, the leaders of the movement to associate the two would be much better off if they used their energy and resources to research other, more viable potential causes for the disorder, rather than to keep believing in falsehoods...
...Professor David A. Moss’ recently released paper as the basis of its recommendation for increased regulation of financial institutions. The paper, written in January but released online last week, suggested that regulations are effective at preventing crises such as the current economic meltdown. Moss said he conducted research on behalf of the Troubled Asset Relief Program Congressional Oversight Panel, which was composing a statement on regulatory reform. The panel’s report drew on Moss’ work to promote insuring and overseeing “systematically significant” financial institutions. Moss suggests that New Deal...
...jumpstart economic growth, including a controversial proposal to hand out $21.7 billion to the Japanese public, many think Aso hasn't done enough. "We have a once-in-a-hundred-year crisis and the policy response is not even average," says Jesper Koll, president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan. "The people running the show are not politicians, not independent or accountable political leaders. The policies are run by bureaucrats...
...economy continues to slide. "The futures markets seem to think oil prices will rise soon enough that Chávez won't have to dip into his foreign reserves, which are about 25% of Venezuela's GDP," says Mark Weisbrot, head of the Center for Economic Policy and Research in Washington. "So I don't think Chávez will have too big a problem getting through the crisis." But other economists say Chávez won't be able to sustain the social largesse at home and petro-diplomacy abroad that have made him the standard bearer of Latin...