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...brave man, but I like to think I know when a damsel is in distress. I lean over and ask if she minds that she is being used as a model for next year's Christmas cards sent out by paparazzi. She shoots me a "what can I do?" smile. I sense that I cannot duck my destiny with gallantry. I utter the words that I've heard from a slew of celebrity handlers over the years. "Come on gentlemen... last two pictures. Miss Fonda is due on stage right...
...that doesn't mean investors don't have anything real to worry about. So here comes the bear case. Some big European technology and telecom firms are in serious distress. Last week, just one day after celebrating its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, German electronics giant Siemens announced it would not meet its earlier sales and earnings targets. The firm's Infineon Technologies semiconductor unit was a victim of a global pullback in technology spending, which has sent memory chip prices plummeting. Sweden's Ericsson, owned directly or indirectly by half of that country's population, has announced...
...then 48, likens to a pulled muscle - worsened throughout the day, leaving her puzzled and fearful. By nightfall she was finding it difficult to breathe. Early the next morning, she was in the emergency ward of her local hospital surrounded by staff trying to establish the cause of her distress. After they had given Gibson oxygen and tested for a heart attack, one of them asked her, "Have you recently been on a long-haul flight...
...then 48, likens to a pulled muscle - worsened throughout the day, leaving her puzzled and fearful. By nightfall she was finding it difficult to breathe. Early the next morning, she was in the emergency ward of her local hospital surrounded by staff trying to establish the cause of her distress. After they had given Gibson oxygen and tested for a heart attack, one of them asked her, "Have you recently been on a long-haul flight...
Babies do in fact communicate their needs, but parents are often too close or too tired to figure out what they're saying. Hogg's advice is to back off a bit, watch and listen. She believes that a lot of distress is caused by too much stimulation--parents who believe a baby needs to be "tired out" in a noisy musical swing right before bed, for instance. Parents who can establish an environment with predictable routines, such as a soothing bedtime ritual, are likely to have calm babies...