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20 Mar 07

Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior - New York Times

  • Every species of ape and monkey has its own protocol for reconciliation after
    fights, Dr. de Waal has found. If two males fail to make up, female chimpanzees
    will often bring the rivals together, as if sensing that discord makes their
    community worse off and more vulnerable to attack by neighbors. Or they will
    head off a fight by taking stones out of the males’ hands.
  • Social living requires empathy, which is especially evident in chimpanzees, as
    well as ways of bringing internal hostilities to an end.
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MySpace Restrictions Upset Some Users - New York Times

  • MySpace says that it will block these pieces of third-party software — also
    called widgets — when they lend themselves to violations of its terms of
    service, like the spread of pornography or copyrighted material. But it also
    objects to widgets that enable users to sell items or advertise without
    authorization, or without entering into a direct partnership with the
    company.

19 Mar 07

All the World’s a Story - New York Times

  • A new experiment wants to broaden the network to include readers and their sources. Assignment Zero (zero.newassignment.net/), a
    collaboration between Wired magazine and NewAssignment.Net, the experimental
    journalism site established by Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New
    York University    , intends to use not only the wisdom of the crowd, but their
    combined reporting efforts — an approach that has come to be called
    “crowdsourcing.”

Senator Insists Bush Aides Testify Publicly - New York Times

  • The Democratic senator leading the inquiry into the dismissal of federal
    prosecutors insisted Sunday that Karl
    Rove     and other top aides to President Bush must testify publicly and under
    oath, setting up a confrontation between Congress and the White House, which has
    said it is unlikely to agree to such a demand.
15 Mar 07

Catherine Orenstein - Op-Ed Writing Seminars - New York Times

  • During the seminar Ms. Orenstein laid out a basic formula for writing a 750-word
    op-ed piece (with the caution that “common sense trumps everything I say”): a
    lead connected to a news hook, a thesis, three points of evidence, conclusion.
    And don’t forget the “to be sure” paragraph in order to pre-empt your opponents’
    comeback, she instructed.
13 Mar 07

TimesSelect University E-mail Verification - Free Access

  • thank goodness for my lifetime drexel.edu email!

     - ashleystar on 2007-03-13
  • TimesSelect: University Discount
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    Faculty

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07 Mar 07

For Cheney, Political Toll May Follow Libby Verdict - New York Times

  • Mr. Cheney is arguably the most powerful vice president in American history, and
    perhaps the most secretive
  • Mr. Cheney’s critics, and even some of his supporters, said the vice president
    had been diminished.
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01 Mar 07

The Opinionato - New York Times Blog - Happy Birthday S&P500!

  • "Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel and Jeremy Schwarz, deputy director of research at WisdomTree Investments, celebrate the 50th birthday of the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index [$]: 'Surprisingly, if an investor had bought a portfolio of all 500 companies that Standard and Poor’s placed in the index on March 1957 and held them until today, he would have not only handily beat the S.&P. 500 index itself; he would have outperformed most money managers that have tried to beat it.' " - ashleystar on 2007-03-01
  • Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel and Jeremy Schwarz, deputy director of
    research at WisdomTree Investments, celebrate the 50th birthday of the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock
    index [$]    : “Surprisingly, if an investor had bought a portfolio of all 500
    companies that Standard and Poor’s placed in the index on March 1957 and held
    them until today, he would have not only handily beat the S.&P. 500 index
    itself; he would have outperformed most money managers that have tried to beat
    it.

A Recession That Arrived on Cats’ Paws - New York Times

  • The economic news certainly isn’t all bad. The housing problems still haven’t
    turned into a crisis, thanks in part to interest rates that are still not high
    by historical standards. So the most likely situation is not a full-blown
    recession (often defined as two consecutive quarters of a shrinking economy).
  • Is it possible that we’re headed for a real recession?

Stocks plummet after sell off in China - New York Times

  • a correction is likely - ashleystar on 2007-02-28
  • One sign of the nature of the sell-off was what went up. United
    States Treasury     prices soared, and yields fell, as some investors sought
    safety.
  • The sell-off left almost every major stock lower, including all 30 stocks in the
    Dow industrials and all but two in the S.& P. 500 and one in the Nasdaq 100.
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