Friday, November 19, 2010

A Hedge Fund Republic? By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

"Oops! That’s already us. The top 1 percent of Americans owns 34 percent of America’s private net worth, according to figures compiled by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. The bottom 90 percent owns just 29 percent." Read the full article

Scientists Claim Breakthrough In Antimatter Hunt

"Scientists may have been able to capture elusive atoms of antimatter"..."But in a report published online by the journal Nature, the scientists said they'd been able to trap individual atoms and keep them around for a bit more than one-tenth of a second. To a particle physicist, that's a pretty long time." Read the full article