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Over the next year or two as a result of japan and then other countries taking proactive actions to minimize the chance of other reactors get hurt or involved, that theyre well provided or prepared for that. >> lets look at the top five holdings in this fund. what are the down sides to investing in a fund like this? you can see some major names there. whats the downside? >> the down side is its a very concentrated fund. heaviered to a particular industry. involved in high-growth, high-p.e. stock...

Community has said to us come help us remove this dictator. we should use other means in terms of limiting the power of dictators. and we have. but we cannot use military means to remove every dictator which unusual here. it reallie really gives us an opportunity. the arab world said let us together remove a dictator. and that gives, it seems to me, a lot of support to our mission of supporting democracy in that area. >> there are countries where leaders are slaughtering their people in the hund...

You get the impression and in general the entire world has coalesced around this objective of getting rid of gadhafi. the down side is that you give up the mrajts to leadership. president obama should want to lead this, but he keeps pulling back. and i think that tension between multi lateralism and our desire to be in the lead is causing not only confusion militarily, but confusion in the eye of the public and i think that does not help the president. he has not spoken to the public with what y...

Youngest? it all -- your birth order could decide how much you sneeze, how much you make, and what you do. >> well set up, brian. >> take it from there! >> you know, birth order is so fascinating and theres a new -- because it basically, do you know the most astronauts are the first born. >> take a look, we have a graphic. >> most presidents are the firth born. so lets see, birth order. >> first -- the first born receives the most attention obviously. >> tend to excel at school and science. appl...

Killed en masse in bosnia ant kosovo because of the religious backgrounds. the first mass killing on european soil since the holocaust. europeans themselves did nothing. only when the americans showed leadership, that mass killing stopped. >> lets talk about the down side. what if we wind up killing civilians you. uh have collateral damage. what if the local population turns on us? how do we know? theres a lot of complication there . >> a lot of complications and questions and a lot of unanswere...

At how wall street will kick off the day. did the dow opens at 11,774 after adding 161 points yesterday. the s&p gained 16 points and the nasdaq was up 19. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei climbed 244 points while in hong kong, the hang seng rose 15. after three days of losses, thursday wall street made a luke warm comeback. recent drops brought out the bargain hunters, but volume was low and options activity shows investors hedging against another fall in s...

Huge, huge endeavor, and i personally think thats beyond whats necessary at this point, but im not in the position and dont have all the information, buts a nuclear engineer who went through this at three mile island, i think were going overcautious. >> what is the worst-case scenario that you can envision? >> time is on your side. the heat levels are dropping when some of the cladding oxidized exothermic reaction, some of that has passed at this point, so if they can get some of the cooling pum...

Most of the time the issue is long-term effect. the iodine is a prevention measure with no down side but only be given to people in the area and it would only protect the thyroid not the rest of the body but the thyroid is something you worry about. >>dave: japanese officials telling people to cover their mouths and someday inside as if that would avoid the symptoms. >>guest: if you are inside you have concrete and other things to protect you but the breathing part is because if there is radiati...

Can i show you a quick chart? here is the price of oil when it ran up the last time. 2008, it peaked at $147 a barrel. you know what george bush did. he didnt tap the spr, $147 down to $33 a barrel in less than months. we need to be drilling more. megyn: is there any down side to tapping into the spr? the more practical decision in your view is to drill. cure the cancer overall as opposed to treating the symptoms. but is there a down side to doing this? >> number one, we need that oil in the eve...

For the customers they are gone. >>guest: that is material cost and our material cost is 22 percent to 24 percent of what would go into our sale cost because you have labor, overhead, and the other one, fuel, because we have to deliver it and get it to the stores but we are looking at now another 1.5 percent to 3 percent average that we have to pass on to people to stabilize ourselves. the down side in a small business world every time you raise prices you price yourself out of the colleague for...