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...transparency. So pressure has built for the Big Board to follow the same standards as its members. "It was Dick who said earlier this year, 'Look, times have changed,'" says N.Y.S.E. spokesman Robert Zito. By disclosing Grasso's pay while extending his contract through 2007, the N.Y.S.E. board ate its own cooking without appearing to criticize the man who has led the exchange through boom, bust, national disaster and scandal. "We wanted to announce to the world a vote of confidence for Dick," said Laurence Fink, CEO of the investment firm BlackRock and a member of the N.Y.S.E.'s compensation...
...happy to be back in civilization ... We ate dates, no vegetables, and there were no vitamins." SILJA STAEHLI, a Swiss woman who was released last week, along with 14 other hostages, after being held in the Sahara desert for five months by a group of Islamic fundamentalists...
...uncontested research suggests that soy is a good way to combat high cholesterol. The key, say nutritionists, is to eat soy as part of an overall heart-healthy diet. A study published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that people with high cholesterol who ate a special vegetarian diet high in fiber and rich in foods known to lower cholesterol--such as soy, oats and almonds--reduced their cholesterol levels by 29%. That was almost as big as the 31% drop for subjects in a group that was given a simple low-fat vegetarian diet...
...ate dates." SILJA STAEHELI, 19-year-old Swiss woman held hostage for six months by an Islamic radical group in the Sahara desert, explaining how she and 13 others survived...
...list of distractions captured by Minicams in a weeklong survey for the American Automobile Association. Only 30% of drivers in the study were caught making calls from behind the wheel, in contrast to 97% who were spotted reaching or leaning, 91% who fiddled with the radio, 77% who ate or drank and 46% who groomed themselves. And 40% were seen reading or writing, though mostly at stop signs. Such distractions cause 1.2 million crashes a year and 12,000 fatalities. --By David Bjerklie