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...downs last week--plenty of both. After the opening bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 45.75 points, to 1840.15, the worst one-day decline in history. Trading veterans, by now used to the spectacular gyrations of the ) continuing bull market, were relatively unfazed. For one thing, the drop represented only 2.43% of the Dow's value, a far cry from catastrophe. Sure enough, the plunge soon halted, and on Friday the Dow stormed back 36.06 points--its eighth-best day ever--to close the week at 1874.19. What really jolted...
...decline. And the Catholic Church has spoken out against the Project for eroding the Biblical hierarchy that gives humans dominion over the earth. "This is either a ridiculous society or a dislocated one," said the Archbishop of Pamplona. "Asking for human rights for monkeys is like asking for bull rights...
...Bull rights? Here in the middle of bullfighting season, when each weekend brings the bloody ritual slaughter - for sport or for art, depending upon your point of view - of more toros bravos, those animals appear to have precious few rights...
...home after a long night of consuming these beverages. (More on the science later, but caffeine makes you feel only "wide-awake drunk," as researchers have put it, not actually less impaired.) The alcoholism-prevention community had been startled by the speed with which the caffeinated cocktail of Red Bull and vodka became a bar staple across the U.S. and Europe in the early 2000s, and many activists were determined to prevent alcoholic energy drinks from achieving a similar cultural foothold. "At least with Red Bull and vodka, you have two component parts that are mixed at a bar," says...
...indicated would get into a lake through a small opening as that at this location," says John West, curator of the Australian Shark Attack File. "White sharks have not been found in estuarine or lake locations before as they are less tolerant of variations in salinity than, say, the bull shark." It seems, West concludes, "that the fisherman has got the wrong identification...