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...market analysts agree on the significance of today's market signal. "I follow the S&P 500 because that's where the money is," says Phil Roth chief technical analyst at Miller Tabak in New York City. "And there the index is still about 4% above its November low." Even so, Roth believes Thursday's Dow drop and its new low-water mark will make the next few trading days anxious ones. "It's important psychologically," he says, noting that negative sentiment has kept buyers at bay, and today's technically significant drop could make them even more skittish. Days...
...While the outlook may be dim today, the slump won't last forever. "This is the time to be reinvesting money and upgrading the product," Rao says. With Asian economies expected to rebound more quickly than those in the West, the hotel industry in the region is expected to follow. Rao forecasts improvement will begin in the second half of 2009. "The moment there is cause for optimism, I think you'll see the whole thing turning around," says Rao. For a CEO with big plans, recovery can't come quickly enough...
...been too discouraging of them. Dr. Stuart Fischbein, an ob-gyn whose Camarillo, Calif., hospital won't allow the procedure, is concerned that women are getting "skewed" information about the risks of a VBAC "that leads them down the path that the doctor or hospital wants them to follow, as opposed to medical information that helps them make the best decision." According to a nationwide survey by Childbirth Connection, a 91-year-old maternal-care advocacy group based in New York City, 57% of C-section veterans who gave birth in 2005 were interested in a VBAC but were denied...
...excels in “shortening the distance between creator and consumer.” As a celebrity in the modern world where information is on-demand 24 hours a day, Burrell said that social media like Twitter allows him to interact directly with the 90,000 fans that follow it. “I would rather control my persona than to put my life or my persona in the hands of others,” he said. The talk, which was recorded by ABC’s Good Morning America as part of a special series on the Twitter...
...biology concentrator from Adams House, Joseph P. Shivers ’10 tends to draw cartoons about Harvard rather than anything that would require him to follow real-world news. He would like to thank his family and friends for humoring him when he shows them his drawings, and especially Ariel Shaker for suggesting this in the first place. Samuel L. Clemens is a third-semester freshman concentrating in the Alphabet, with a secondary field in Two-Digit Numbers. He enjoys masturbatory self-description. Also, gargoyles. His comics focus on anthropomorphic abstractions, such as “loyalty?...