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Take This Waltz - Video: Feb 2, 6:34am (1 review) music, video, leonard-cohen http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2288405/ta...; Cliff Le Jeune singing Leonard Cohen's "take his waltz"; Delete this site from your blog? or Delete review only

Forgotten Experiment May Explain Origins of Life | Wired Science: Oct 16, 2008 7:00pm (7 reviews) science http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/...; From the page: Originally considered a dud, an old volcano-in-a-bottle experiment designed to mimic the conditions that may have given rise to life may have been right on target.

After reanalyzing the results of unpublished research conducted by Stanley Miller in 1953, chemists realized that his experiment had actually produced a wealth of amino acids -- the protein foundation of life.; Delete this site from your blog? or Delete review only

CNN.com - Transcripts: Sep 29, 2008 7:29am (1 review) politics, china http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...; Transcript of a rare interview of China's prime minister Wen Jiabao by CNN's Fareed Zakaria. topics covered include the financial crisis, Tiananmen square, Tibet, Darfur, Marcus Aurelius, the democritisation of China...; Delete this site from your blog? or Delete review only

7 Questions About the $700 Billion Bailout - TIME: Sep 24, 2008 5:01pm (1 review) economics, crisis, usa http://www.time.com/time/politics/articl...; From the page: "7 Questions About the $700 Billion Bailout
By Mark Thompson / Washington Wednesday, Sep. 24, 2008
The proposed $700 billion bailout of the nation's beleaguered financial markets has become a taffy pull between the Bush Administration and lawmakers from both parties. Many on Capitol Hill believe Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is seeking too much unregulated cash and power in his effort to stabilize the economy by buying up toxic mortgage-backed securities. He's also asking Congress to lift the ceiling on the national debt to a record $11.3 trillion from the current $10.6 trillion, which could weaken the U.S. dollar, raise interest rates and act as an additional drag on the economy. All that money has led to lots of questions from lawmakers and taxpayers alike. Here are a few answers.
* Q

A: Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson
* Paulson: 'I Believe We're Going to Get a Bill That Works'
* Congress and the Bailout Plan: Business As Usual

1. Will it really cost $700 billion?
The dollar estimate of this bailout is just that �" an estimate. Think of it as that bubble that slides up or down inside a level: it keeps moving, and where it ends up depends on who's talking. Some optimists think the mortgages the Treasury will buy are basically sound, and that the ultimate loss to the government after it sells them could be as little as $100 billion. Others point to a drop in housing prices of nearly 20% since mid-2006 and say the government's eventual loss could approach $1 trillion. By seeking $700 billion �" roughly akin to the cost of the Iraq war (so far) �" the Treasury is taking a middle path. But many on Capitol Hill are pushing a proposal to commit an initial sum of $150 billion to $200 billion before handing over the whole sum.

2. How long will the money last?
The Bush Administration is proposing the government's mortgage purchases be spread out over two years �" while speed is of the essence, the Treasury needs time to set up a fair program to evaluate just what it's buying. There's lots of paperwork to go through: About 10% of the nation's $11 trillion in mortgages are delinquent or in foreclosure. Uncle Sam would likely hang on to some of the mortgage securities it buys for far longer before reselling them to investors, in an attempt to minimize its losses and maybe even turn a profit.

3. Is this kind of bailout unprecedented?
The current financial Hail Mary is much different from Washington's late 1980s rescue of the nation's savings and loans institutions. This time, the federal government wants only to carve out and buy poorly performing mortgages and securities, not the institutions that issued them, which had already gone under (or were on their way) when the Resolution Trust Corporation took them over. Richard Kogan, a federal budget expert at the nonprofit Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, says that buying all those bad assets creates "the greatest possibility of giving the taxpayers a bath." But it also makes for quick and easy implementation. "When you go to a financial institution and say 'We'd like to buy your bad assets,' they're going to say: 'Let's sit down and talk right this minute.'" Some on Capitol Hill, led by Rep. Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who heads the House Financial Services Committee, think the deal is too sweet for Wall Street and are pushing to give taxpayers a piece of equity in the companies they would bail out.

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Paris Match: Style: vanityfair.com: Sep 20, 2008 9:03am (1 review) france http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features...; portrait of Carla Bruni, France's new first lady.; Delete this site from your blog? or Delete review only

Letras de tango: Sep 1, 2008 2:26am (1 review) music, lyrics, tango http://hjg.com.ar/tangos/; the lyrics to more tan 70 tango songs...; Delete this site from your blog? or Delete review only

Brain, Mind, Consciousness and Learning: Jeff Hawkins: Brain science...: Aug 7, 2008 8:19am (1 review) ai, computers, a-i, video, brain http://brainandlearning.blogspot.com/200...; From the page: "To date, there hasn't been an overarching theory of how the human brain really works, Jeff Hawkins argues in this compelling talk. That's because we still haven't defined intelligence accurately. But one thing's for sure, he says: The brain isn't like a powerful computer processor. It's more like a memory system that records everything we experience and helps us predict, intelligently, what will happen next. Bringing this new brain science to computer devices will enable powerful new applications -- and it will happen sooner than you think. "; Delete this site from your blog? or Delete review only