Several years ago, executives with Singapore’s major private banks came to the government with an enviable problem.
Banking: How to clone Switzerland
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Finland’s Educational Success? The Anti-Tiger Mother Approach
Spring may be just around the corner in this poor part of Helsinki known as the Deep East, but the ground is still mostly snow-covered and the air has a dry, cold bite. In a clearing outside the Kallahti Comprehensive School, a handful of 9-year-olds are sitting back-to-back, arranging sticks, pinecones, stones and berries into shapes on the frozen ground.
In Liana Liberato We ‘Trust’: Schwimmer’s Pedophilia Tale
Much like this week’s splashy action picture Source Code, Trust features a story line about people at the mercy of technology. But there’s no science-fiction component to director David Schwimmer’s grim story of Internet-based pedophilia, and there’s no aspect of it that doesn’t feel painfully plausible.
The Vitamin-D Debate: How Much is OK?
Spend a few minutes soaking up some rays and your body will start to pump out more vitamin D. Many health officials believe Americans are D-deficient, but in the age of sunblock and self-tanners, how many vitamin-D pills should we be popping
Source Code: A Sci-Fi "Groundhog Day" Awash in Bombs, Paranoia and Inconsistency
The science-fiction thriller Source Code starts in a state of glorious disorientation.
Life Found in a Meteorite? Some Scientists Don’t Buy It
The question of where life began is one of the enduring mysteries of science. Charles Darwin himself speculated that it might have happened in “a warm little pond,” while modern biologists think the superheated water around seafloor volcanic vents is a more likely spot
The Evolution Wars
Sometime in the late fall, unless a federal court intervenes, ninth-graders at the public high school in rural Dover, Pa., will witness an unusual scene in biology class.
Borderline Personality Disorder: Mental Illness on Rise?
Doctors used to have poetic names for diseases. A physician would speak of consumption because the illness seemed to eat you from within
The Great Wall Street Sucking Sound
Ever wonder how investment bankers, a breed known in the past more for its social skills and golf handicaps than for its mathematical prowess, ever invented products like those crazily sophisticated, synthetic collateralized debt obligations that brought down the financial system? Well, they didn’t.
Just Say Om
The one thought I cannot purge, the one that keeps coming back and getting between me and my bliss, is this: What a waste of time.