On another topic, Ridge said the teen-ager who recently slammed a small plane into a building in Tampa, Florida, appears to have been a "troubled young man" and presumably is not linked to al Qaeda.
His question reminded her of the importance of role models, another topic on which she has strong opinions.
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Reuters said that the news service stands by its story, and followed it up with another on the same topic on Aug. 26.
For another angle on the topic, I asked Joe Weinman, the Senior VP at interconnection and data center firm Telx, to provide his predictions for 2013.
Lots of things are important when it comes to stock performance, and unfortunately a rather disturbingly high number of them are generally ignored by most investment analysts: religion (yes, religion), fertility, ethical corruption, moral corruption, property rights, soundness of currency, debt, tax progressivity, and size of government (which is another topic on which Mr. Mauldin has become a little muddled: more on this later).
Another hot topic on the presidential scene has been health care.
Aside from GIK issues, word on the charitable street is that another topic of interest is paid professional fundraisers running direct-mail and telephone solicitation operations who keep most of what they raise as their fee, perhaps with the donors none the wiser.
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You can read more on this topic in our article Citi Shuts Another Prop Group as Banks Prepare for Volcker Rule.
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Another topic that was heavily discussed was about the effectiveness of the age restrictions on Facebook, with some students saying that they have come across many users under the age of 13 online.
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