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...from the government through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, is generating most of those profits by making risky bets on interest rates and other fluctuations in the financial markets with money it has received from the government. Goldman says it would like to pay back its TARP loans as soon as possible, and on Tuesday the company raised $5 billion in a stock offering that the executives said would help Goldman do so. But Goldman's huge trading profits, at a time when it and other banks are pulling back lending, raises new concerns about whether Goldman and other financial...
...sites such as match.com or eHarmony, fasDate is completely free. Users can also instant message and video-chat each other, as well as create groups and blogs. Founder Andrew Lach believes that because of fasDate’s community of users, innovative software, and free price tag, it will soon break down the negative stigma surrounding online dating. “I think that in the future, rather soon, that to not use the internet to meet people will seem a little outdated,” he said...
Sunspot activity may be a primary factor in climate fluctuations, according to Willie Soon, a researcher affiliated with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Harvard College Observatory, who offered the hypothesis in an interview with TG Daily, an online news source. Although many climatologists have cited increases in carbon dioxide as the primary cause of the temperature increases associated with global warming, Soon maintained that solar radiation from sunspots also has a great effect. “The sun is a great driving force to climate change,” Soon said in an interview with The Crimson...
...Earlier this year, in vitro fertilization was used to screen for a faulty BRCA1 gene that increases one’s susceptibility for breast cancer, while researchers at Cambridge University claim that a pre-natal screening for autism will soon be possible. Although both steps seem to represent an innocuous effort to prevent devastating medical conditions, the extended use of pre-natal screening raises many serious ethical questions...
...zombie apocalypse gripped toy guns to ward off potential threats to their grasps on life. One female zombie gnawed at a bloody heart. One protester held a sign that read "Easter is for candy, not for zombies"—but the individual was inevitably drawn into the masses, soon staggering forward as yet another soulless human shell...