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...biggest trading volumes of the year, Thursday saw healthy rallies on all three indexes: 122 points for the Dow, 102 for NASDAQ, 15 for the S&P. Friday followed with more good stuff: the Dow ended up 24 and the NASDAQ was ahead by 28. Good days to help cap off a very good month (except for Ford), with the Dow picking up 7 percent in August and NASDAQ gaining 11 percent and finally breaking into positive territory for the year...
...waiting room and saw a mother pushing a sweet little girl in a wheelchair. The girl wore a stocking cap, having lost her hair. An old man was called to the desk, accompanied by his son. A nurse explained to the son how to collect a stool sample. And then a stocky woman in white called my name and led me down the hall to an examining room and told me to strip to my shorts and don a small gown. She was friendly and matter of fact in the manner of small-town Lutherans, and I could imagine striking...
...this in the face of rampant corruption and greed. Last year, Nigerian senators spent much of their time gaining access to government coffers to buy furniture for their state-bought private homes. Senators ignored an approved cap of $35,000 and took $50,000 - all of it in cash. The third most-senior member of the government was just impeached for pocketing $350,000 for his furniture - and a $200,000 holiday bonus...
...could feel the fatigue kicking in during the two-hour episode, which played like David and Maddy getting together - a few payoffs, but deflating. But Richard got what he deserved, and the ending will sit well with viewers as they put the lens cap back on their collective telescope and get on with their realistic, unedited lives. "Survivor" may survive this winter, maybe on 10 million viewers - it's still a fun idea, and season two will be an occasion for reminiscing. But maybe we didn't have to meet the players. Once you start juxtaposing reality with "reality," only...
THINK SMALL After being out of favor for three years, small-cap stocks are staging a relative comeback. Propelled by gains in the health-care and energy sectors, the Russell 2000 is outperforming all three major indexes. According to William Kan, a Merrill Lynch strategist, "Small-cap companies are undervalued, and many offer strong growth prospects." Don't look for a quick hit: small stocks aren't immune to the current volatile market environment...