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...buggy British electronic trading system may have spurred the merger that created the world's second biggest stock exchange. The London Stock Exchange and Frankfurt's Deutsche Bourse merged Wednesday as equal partners, with a NASDAQ tie-in rendering the new iX (international exchange) the 500-pound gorilla of European markets. "This deal has been in the works for years but kept breaking down over whether the merged exchange should use the German or the British electronic trading platform," says TIME Atlantic business editor Richard Hornik. "But three weeks ago, that debate was rendered moot when the British system crashed...
...fewer individuals, hence that number of heartbeats away from total extinction. The club's more familiar members include the Javan rhinoceros, Philippine eagle, Hawaiian crow, Spix's macaw and Chinese river dolphin. Other endangered species lined up for early admission are the giant panda, Sumatran rhinoceros and mountain gorilla...
...immoral for the Harrington-Menino corporate gorilla to bring pain, to cause mental distress, and to inflict permanent damage to millions of Red Sox fans by destroying a sacred place of perpetual goodness and occasional...
...longer exists (though its weaponry does). So why do it now? Because George Clooney wanted to. He made Fail Safe a priority when he pitched shows to CBS; the network in turn insisted that he act in it (he plays a bomber pilot). "I'm the 800-lb. gorilla that can make this work," he admits. He personally secured the A-list cast, Don Cheadle, Noah Wyle, Harvey Keitel and James Cromwell among them. And he contends the story is no mere period piece. "Even though certain things were dated, it resonates for me," he says. "It's biblical...
That's why privacy advocates are so nervous about DoubleClick. Not only is the New York City-based company the 500-lb. gorilla of online advertising--serving banner ads to 1,800 commercial sites that represent nearly 50% of all Web traffic--but it also has ambitious plans to merge its massive database of consumer surfing habits with off-line data culled from catalog purchases. That would enable it to match what had been anonymous mouse clicks to real names and addresses--shredding whatever thin veil of privacy still hangs over cyberspace...