4-9-2010

4-9-2010—Major US banks have masked their risk levels in the past five quarters by temporarily lowering their debt just before reporting it to the public, New York Fed data show. WSJ A1
--A South African boy discovered the first known fossils of a pre-human species, raising more questions about the course of human evolution. ..[Bernard Wood, Geo.Wash.U.:] “I think these fossils are evidence that the tree of human evolutionary history had lots of twigs, all but one of which became extinct.”—WSJ, A1, A3 [cmon, give us a little time...]
--“We were fighting what was an obvious, difficult, never-ending, and probably impossible struggle to shoot arrows at this on-coming juggernaut of what was a corporate machine that was going to sweep us away and turn this whole culture into nothing more than a karaoke playground.”—Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, dead at 64. WSJWSJ W3