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...many new programs to help fix our banking system, and how those programs work will determine whether the financial stocks have to go to new lows. The broader stock market has been building a technical base since October, but financial stocks are just starting to build a base. The risk we have is that financial stocks will have to go to new lows, and that will cause more volatility in the overall market...
...with about 15% in each group reporting such weight-control tactics. But among former vegetarians, that number jumped to 27%. The findings suggest that age matters when it comes to vegetarianism: teenage vegetarians as well as young experimenters - those who try it but abandon it - may be at higher risk for other eating disorders compared with their peers. But by young adulthood, many still-practicing vegetarians have presumably chosen it as a lifestyle rather than a dieting ploy, the study suggests...
...Giving parents the ability to pick what they consider “desirable” phenotypic traits has implications beyond family planning; as a society, we risk creating arbitrary divisions between those who have these traits and those who does not. Indeed, the entire practice smacks of eugenics programs, where humans are “bred” to represent what society considers to be desirable traits. Eugenics has become synonymous with ideas of racial purity; in Nazi Germany, programs in “racial hygiene” and the prevention of racial impurities were officially sanctioned...
...Some will say I am too focused on the wars we are in and not enough on future threats," Gates told reporters. "But it is important to remember that every defense dollar spent to overinsure against a remote or diminishing risk - or, in effect, to 'run up the score' in a capability where the United States is already dominant - is a dollar not available to take care of our people, reset the force, win the wars we are in and improve capabilities in areas where we are underinvested and potentially vulnerable...
...solidarity with the Italians. The deadly quake came just hours after a magnitude 4.6 tremor was felt across Italy's north-central region, with no reports of damage. Italy's boot-shaped peninsula is crisscrossed by two fault lines, with about 20 million of its 57 million residents at risk from earthquakes. (See pictures of Obama's trip to Europe...