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...Nuovo Mercato and the granddaddy of the high-tech bourses, America's nasdaq, all reached new peaks. Then the tide turned, taking with it many investors, market analysts and the brash young things with their big dreams. In the past year, the combined value of all nasdaq stocks has fallen by more than $3 trillion. On this side of the Atlantic, the combined value of stocks in London's ftse techMARK 100 index has dropped by over $93 billion. In the markets, black humor has replaced boundless optimism, and the word dotcom has become first dotbomb and then dotgone...
Been victimized by an overly tempting credit card offer? Charge your way through some lean years and need a way out? Or just fallen on hard times? Three words: Chapter 7 bankruptcy. But you'd better hurry - an overhaul of bankruptcy law is through the Senate and on its way to the waiting pen of George W. Bush...
...purpose" of an act, or how one assigns that purpose moral weight (outside of the naturalistic fallacy that whatever is, is good) is difficult to discern. Even harder is how to justify in this context the rhythm method or sex with an infertile spouse; to do so, conservatives have fallen back on ennobling heterosexuality per se, calling it a "unique two-in-one flesh communion" or invoking, as did Salient publisher Bronwen C. McShea '02, the union of Christ and His Church. Looking for good metaphors is a silly way to go about moral reasoning, and with legions of gender...
...that's a gross oversimplification. (Without gross oversimplification, there would be no sitcoms.) But the business of TV comedy has fallen, and hard, since Jerry Seinfeld poured his last bowl of cereal. As recently as 1996-97, the year-end Nielsen ratings listed seven sitcoms in the top 10. Today there are two: Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond, which are seven and five years old, respectively. New comedy hits--Will & Grace, Malcolm in the Middle--have been rare. Last fall's one debatable success, CBS's Yes, Dear, was scheduled between established hits. Familiar names (Michael Richards, John Goodman) landed...
...learning that can go on." McComb health coordinator Norma Krapac and her staff sought to deal with a growing asthma problem in the district by teaching students about what triggers their attacks and placing nebulizers in every school. As a result, absenteeism among asthmatics has fallen. School disciplinary referrals have also dropped since a plan to put a nurse in every school was implemented. "When a child skips class or misbehaves, there's usually a lot more to it than meets the eye," says Krapac. "Maybe that child is avoiding a bully, for example. Nurses are in a position...