Friday, April 03, 2009

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Taking a deep sniff of lavender before you

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:15:20 -0700
Taking a deep sniff of lavender before you settle down for a horror film might stop you getting so scared - but only if you are a woman, a study has found.Men should avoid the smell unless they crave a more unsettling experience, a paper being presented to the British Psychological Society suggests. Volunteers were given either capsules containing lavender or a placebo. Their physiological responses to neutral, scary and light-hearted film clips were then observed. Women who took lavender had an

Larry Summers Received Money From Hedge Fund & Banks

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:33:30 -0700
One of the top economic advisers to the Obama administration received roughly $5.2 Million over the past year in compensation from Wall Street hedge fund D.E. Shaw. And Mr. Summers also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation from JP Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Lehman for speaking engagements. Source: WSJ Do you remember the history of Larry Summers? He was the Treasury Secretary in 1999 when Congress repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 . It was that pivota

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