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...fears that drugged the stock market was that U.S. companies might face even larger losses in Latin America, where they have much more exposure (about a third of U.S. exports) and where currencies came under fresh assault late last week. Brazil saw $11 billion in capital fleeing the country in the past five weeks--not because its economy is weak but because of each investor's fear that other investors might flee any economy slurred with the label "emerging." Money also fled the stocks of financial institutions with lots of business and investment in the emerging markets. Citicorp's stock...
Even a Little One like Bonnie, of course, can do plenty of harm. Some half a million people were forced to flee inland last week, as the 400-mile-wide storm--mammoth in size even by hurricane standards--swirled toward Cape Fear, N.C. And though Bonnie's 115-m.p.h. winds slowed rapidly as she lumbered inland, her forward progress slowed too, with the result that the storm hovered over the state and pummeled it for more than a day. Downed power lines robbed over 240,000 people of electricity. Even worse than the winds were the rains--more than...
...scrubby campsite in the middle of the sand trap that stretches from San Diego to Phoenix. The nowhere setting and psycho temperature, a relatively cool 112[degrees] on a recent afternoon, tells you right away that the 100 to 150 squatters parked there this summer--several thousand others always flee the heat and return in October--are whacked out of their gourd...
...those arriving in Cambridge as the weather heats up and those staying on while others flee to more hospitable climates, there is a lot to enjoy...
...must you flee from milk entirely? Yes, says Cohen, who holds that skim milk is the devil's brew. It's full of--are you sitting down?--protein. And here's where the ADC starts twisting the facts to reach wild conclusions. Allergies are frequently triggered by proteins (true); asthma is an allergic condition (true); it's been increasing draatically (true); doctors don't know the cause (true); therefore, the protein in milk must be the culprit...