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...more inside-baseball indication of being on shaky ground is the fact that even on days when stock prices are rising, few people are trading, making for some fairly thin rallies. "Sellers have entered the market but buyers have stepped away," says Mary Ann Bartels, head of U.S. technical and market analysis at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. "When that happens, we have to question the sustainability of the rally." (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...later visit could allow Obama to bring his daughters and possibly his half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, who spent many years in Indonesia with their mother, Ann Dunham. Dennis Korompis met with Maya in Washington D.C. in September and said she was interested in creating a foundation that will help send Indonesian kids to school in the U.S. "She wants to come next summer to visit schools in remote areas that need help," says Korompis. "If they come next year they can stay longer." And though there has been some disappointment, Indonesians agree that the relationship is a special...
Amid growing controversy surrounding the decision to place brass bars in front of the books in the Dunster House library, House Masters Roger and Ann Porter have taken steps to defend their decision, citing security concerns and new information about the collection’s value...
...interview yesterday in the library, Ann Porter defended the decision and down-played the student reaction to the new security measure, striking the same chords she and co-Master Roger B. Porter had emphasized in a Wednesday e-mail to the House community. She added in the interview that students could still request books from the library and will now be able to access them 24 hours following a request, after library personnel have unscrewed the bars to remove the requested books...
...detect vocalizing marine mammals in times of poor visual clarity. But Rose says that animals are often silent, and some "have high frequency vocalizations, which can only be detected when a PAM system is quite close." In other words, it would be too late to avoid airgun harm. Lee-Ann Ford, president and founder of Hong Kong-based Linking Individuals for Nature Conservation (LINC), says the sound of airgun explosions is 265 decibels at the source, and 110 decibels almost five miles away. The approximate hearing threshold for humans and marine mammals is 180 decibels, so "at [five miles] they...