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Good News From Finland

In Finland, it will become possible to pay in Russian rubles in the stores. This is important for everyone in St. Petersburg because St. Petersburg residents frequently visit Finland, thus Finland has recently adopted this law in order to attract even more tourists from Russia. The idea was proposed by the store “Stockmann”, and was supported by several other companies in Finland. The new law s...

Good news for mice!

Each December, science reporters dutifully sit down and compose stories about all the good things science has done for humanity in the past year. As my colleagues and I at National Public Radio contemplated this annual rite, we reluctantly came to the conclusion that 1999 hasn’t been all that notable a year, scientifically, for human beings. But it has been a spectacular year for mice. The firs...

NO news is good news for plants.

The organization of redox signaling and the use of nitric oxide (NO) to transmit information, modulate biological processes or create cellular damage are highly complex. Recent reports provide an exceptional picture of NO production, of the regulation of NO bioactivity through detoxification reactions and of biochemical events by which NO transduces signals into cellular responses, in particula...

No News is Good News

It seems plausible that an increase in stock market volatility raises required stock returns, and thus lowers stock prices. We develop a formal model of this volatility feedback effect using a simple model of changing variance (a quadratic generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic, or QGARCH, model). Our model is asymmetric and helps to explain the negative skewness and excess ku...

NO news is good news.