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...year, as investors and traders reacted to Congress's rejection of the bailout plan presented by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, the stock market sell-off was dramatic: the Dow fell nearly 7% that day, a one-day drop that has been matched only 17 times since the index's birth in 1896. From its peak last October, the Dow has fallen more than...
American Lighting: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood and the Crime of the Century By Howard Blum Crown...
...capitalism (the broadsheet's owner, publisher and editor, Harrison Gray Otis, detested the former) quickly blamed union terrorists. Interweaving the tales of Billy Burns, a private detective known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," famed attorney Clarence Darrow, of Scopes Monkey Trial fame, and filmmaker D.W. Griffith, director of Birth of a Nation, Blum attempts to weave an early twentieth century murder mystery...
...hero James Baldwin once wrote: “It is the responsibility of free men to trust and to celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not think so—and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change. I speak of change not on the surface but in the depths—change in the sense of renewal...
...with most of the neurons our brain will ever have - and that's fewer than we have in utero. Humans achieve their maximum brain-cell density between the third and sixth month of gestation - the culmination of an explosive period of prenatal neural growth. During the final months before birth, our brains undergo a dramatic pruning in which unnecessary brain cells are eliminated. Many neuroscientists now believe that autism is the result of insufficient or abnormal prenatal pruning...