Ethics

SEC Staff Recommends Modification to Short-Sales Prohibition
The Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Trading and Markets today issued the following statement: "The Commission staff is recommending to the Commission a modification to its order prohibiting short selling in securities of specified financial firms...

Negotiating with the Mortgage Company
At the heart of a loan modification is communication between a creditor and a debtor that leads to an agreement on new contract terms. If the debtor cannot get reach a person with authority to negotiate, a modification won't be...

If you want to increase your intelligence, train your working memory
If you want to sharpen your mental ability to solve new problems outside your area of expertise, you should train your working memory, according to The New York Times article ?Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower? by Nicholas Bakalar...

US Patent 7352007 - Phosphorescent nanotube memory
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7352007.htmlThis patent from Micron Tech. teaches a new type of optical memory using nanotubes which is proposed as a potential replacement for DRAM...

Social Security Disability SSI and Memory Loss
How often does memory loss play into the processing of an SSD claim (social security disability) or SSI disability claim (supplemental security income)? Actually, memory loss is a factor far more than many would realize...

Memory Detection and Constitutional Rights
Abstract only on SSRN: "Brain Imaging and the Bill of Rights: Memory Detection Technologies and U.S. Criminal Justice" American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-4, 2008 DOV FOX, Yale Law School Memory detection technologies could transform the...