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Eurr... Brock and Irwin died in '06...?


- Sort-of stapled on to Marco's points: '08 marks governmental decisions to throw 700 800 billion USD into a bailout 'rescue plan', and then throw another 800 billion USD into another much less publicized plot to 'unfreeze lending'.

- Largest Ponzi scheme bust in American history, involving somewhere around 50 billion USD, and led by a former NASDAQ chairman (who faces up to twenty years in prison and a five million dollar fine (don't try this at home, kids!)).

- Japanese researcher develops method to induce pluripotent stem cells from regular human tissues.
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