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...slow the economy's growth. "When the rising oil price begins to jeopardize the U.S. economic expansion," says Baumohl, "we may have reached the point where the question becomes: Are we saving the Saudi royal family at the expense of the U.S. economy? That's prompting calls for some arm-twisting on OPEC - after all, as their effective protector and godfather, the U.S. has considerable leverage over countries like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait...
...Regardless of their personal and often painful memories of day trading, they had legitimate reasons as to why it is difficult. Parag Y. Shah '02 described day trading as "playing basketball with one arm. You don't have the tools to compete with [big firms], and you have to be right so much of the time." Everyone agreed that it was a huge time commitment and a mental strain. "You just have to hope that one company will carry you," Wu said...
...been decreed mandatory for all service personnel whose near future includes a trip to the wrong corner of the world. Around here, we call it The Shot, and because my New York reserve unit is bound for South Korea in September, it's coming in March to an arm near me. And suddenly, it's soldier time...
...various news articles quote anti-inoculation groups as saying the figure is about a thousand. So, if I split the difference and quadruple the military's numbers - to, say, 400 - that's still 1,000 to 1 that I come away with nothing worse than a bump on my arm, which...
...veterans of the Free Cigarettes War, the Agent Orange War and the Gulf War Illness War will attest to that. The Pentagon, the CDC and the NIH are all working furiously on a new, safer vaccine, as well as studying ways to make the current one easier on the arm than it is now. Which would only serve to make me feel like a sucker if they, or Congress, get their act together sometime next fall...