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Then there are the hedge funds, unregulated investment firms that had been snapping up that private-equity debt, subprime mortgages and all sorts of other weird new securities. After several years of calm, fund blowups have become commonplace this summer--and because hedgies have lots of leeway in how they value their odd investments, there may be many more blowups in the wings that we don't know about...
...perilous trek, which took fully outfitted climbers a day, in two hours. Reardon was killed after completing a climb off the coast of Ireland. A wave swept him into the ocean as he stood on a ledge 15 ft. (41/2 m) above the water waiting for the ocean to calm...
...woman for constantly thrashing her legs in bed -a common, comic treatment of the syndrome. "It's such a trivial-sounding disorder," says Dr. Mark Buchfuhrer, a sleep specialist who is working on his third book about RLS. "People say they've got restless legs and you go, 'Well, calm them down and get over it,' right...
Only blocks away, except for the occasional wail of a siren, there were few clues that anything had broken the calm of the muggy evening. Sayre noted that people were going about their daily business and said he even spotted some joggers on a nearby street. "It was very surreal," he said. With reporting from the Associated Press
...underneath his jive-assed manner Petey was a serious, even moral, man. And when Washington riotously erupted in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, Petey took to the air and, in a marathon broadcast, helped calm the city. It was his apotheosis. It brought him a measure of national fame and the possibility of becoming a major celebrity...