Under a proposal by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, a council of regulators would be established to monitor financial firms regarded as so big and influential that their collapse could bring down the entire economy.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us Read more about Bill Would Give U.S. Powers Over Financial Firms...

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Little Buddy keeps kids on the radar Little Buddy Child Tracker can send alerts to smartphones if children aren't where they are supposed to be. Image from Flickr. The most recent child abduction case to go national was the sad story of Somer Thompson, a 7-year-old Florida girl who was missing for days before detectives found her ...

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A few years ago, I visited the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Japanese gardens are designed precisely to appear natural, resulting in an interesting collision between nature and man. There is a set of principles or aesthetics that guide the creation of Japanese gardens, including the dry gardens commonly called ...

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In the book Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz, he talks about how there are two types of people, maximizers and satisficers (think satisfy + suffice). I will simply quote the excellent summary from the book’s Wikipedia page: A maximizer is like a perfectionist, someone who needs to be assured that their every purchase ...

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Tickets for select shows available Taylor Swift image from Picasa. She won’t be performing in the U.S. until next year, but Taylor Swift tickets are now available for several of her tour dates. Taylor Swift tickets for shows in Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Mossouria are already selling like hotcakes. Stories of teenagers waiting throught the night are ...

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