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Eileen Muniz of Mohegan Lake, N.Y., cannot imagine what bizarre twist of fate caused all three of her children to be afflicted with autism spectrum disorders. There's no family history of autism, she says. "You always ask yourself, Is it me? Is it him [her ex-husband]? I had my kids late - in my mid-30s. Was I on the birth control pill too long? I never did drugs. I don't smoke. I can't figure out why this would happen to us. That's why I wanted to do the genetic testing...
...short sellers in the company's shares have been "squeezed" more than once this year - forced to cover when the banks had good news. That covering magnified the rebound in Citi's share price. Citi is a "rumor a day" stock. Recently, the market has speculated about the fate of the bank's CEO, Vikram Pandit, whether the firm will have to raise money because of government stress tests, and whether the bank can maintain the earnings it posted for the first quarter. So far this year, the stock has traded in a range of $7.46 to $.97, a short...
...interest. Its short interest as of April 15 was 63.8 million shares, down 7% from two weeks earlier. The company has a very high 28% of its float sold short, which is equivalent to six trading days of volume based on the current daily average. As concerns about the fate of the newspaper industry mounted, Gannett's shares plunged from over $9 in mid-January to $1.85 in mid-March. Two weeks ago, Ariel Investments announced that it had increased its investment in Gannett from 4.8% of the company to 12.5%. That puzzled Wall St because of the bleak future...
...Unfortunately for the country - and it is the country that is watching all of this - that action was almost certainly not ethical. It was a case of two men with the power to determine the fate of another man and the company he led by taking all of his responsibilities out of his hands. By the action, Bernanke and Paulson pushed Lewis to betray a trust to his shareholders, his customers, and his employees. Bank of America has been on many of the lists of mortally ill banks which may have to be broken up or nationalized since the Merrill...
...perhaps, for the success of the ending, it is best that it does. The conscious rejection of pure realism serves to de-emphasize the role of the filmmakers, just as Happy’s entrance into Brian’s life threatens his control of his own fate. What is gigantic in the film, then, is simply the accumulation of moments that somehow amount to a turnaround for Brian; the title magnifies the importance of each minute battle won in everyday life...