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...Another reason to think higher stock prices aren't necessarily in the offing: history. Since the market hit a low in March, it has fairly consistently marched higher, occasionally falling back, but rarely by more than a few percentage points at a time. The last time the market has had such a run without a correction of 10% or more was 1933, says Bartels. Momentum, pleasant though it may be, tends not to last for such long stretches...
...Dave Champion, director of vehicle-testing at Consumer Reports, says both Hyundai and Kia have developed a genuine appeal for American consumers seeking affordable transportation. "Their buyers aren't worried about name-brand image," says Champion, who notes Hyundai's 10-year, 100,000-mile warranty is a winner. Kia's warranty of five years or 60,000 miles, and 10-year or 100,000-mile power train, isn't as broad, but it is still generous by industry standards...
...paper published in the journal Pain, researchers found that clinical-trial participants have reported a wide variety of nocebo-fueled medical complaints, including burning sensations outside the stomach, sleepiness, fatigue, vomiting, weakness and even taste disturbances, tinnitus and upper-respiratory-tract infection. What's more, these nocebo complaints aren't random; they tend to be specific to the type of drug that patients believe they may be taking. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...back," he says. "Then it got to the point when you could injunct a newspaper, but you could still read the story about the celebrity on the website of a foreign paper. Now stuff can be communicated left, right and center. Half the people it's being communicated by aren't even in the jurisdiction. How are you going to effectively prevent that?" (Read a Q&A with author Christopher Andrew on MI5's secrets...
...Whitopia is that they're safe communities with good public schools and beautiful natural resources. Those qualities are subconsciously inseparable from race in many Americans' minds. For some people, race is a major role, and they said so to my face, but most of the Whitopians I encountered aren't intentionally practicing racial discrimination or self-segregation...