The school also enlisted the help of a comfort dog for the school children to bond with.

CNN: SHARE THIS

Other ideas in his manifesto include introducing a Bristol School Olympics, a bond scheme for people to "invest" in the city, freeing up plans for the Arena, and making decisions about care for the elderly with individuals in mind, "not the profits of big business".

BBC: Bristol mayoral race: Geoff Gollop makes tax pledge

The wearing of uniforms is a daily reminder to young Singaporeans that school is where they stand together and bond with fellow citizens, regardless of race, religion or social status.

ECONOMIST: America's imbalance

Alan Beck , director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine and a principal investigator in the study, says they placed Aibo, a robotic dog made by Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ), in the homes of isolated senior citizens to determine whether the robotic pet can improve quality of life.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Last year, Harry Kat, a professor at City University's Cass Business School in London, and three others used American stock and bond data from 1970 to 2003 in thousands of simulations measuring risk and return on ten-year Treasury bonds, alone and in more diversified portfolios.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

The government is now looking to capital bond markets and even the European Investment Bank to fund its priority school building programme.

BBC: School rebuilding delayed by lack of finance

The Department for Education denied there were delays to the programme, but said it was essential to take the time to find the right finance arrangement for each school, and confirmed it was now looking at a number of options including a bond finance solution.

BBC: School rebuilding delayed by lack of finance

So Vinny, the high school graduate from New Jersey with hair coming up from under his shirt, now had to run his bond trades next to a PhD from MIT who could use mathematical models to understand the option value of the security.

FORBES: Michael Lewis and the Cultural Transformation of the Media Business