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...perhaps the biggest reason for optimism is Xi'an residents like Lu Bo. The 32-year-old says the salary he earns as a salesman in the air-freight department at China Eastern Airlines was reduced by a third last year when his company was hit hard by the financial crisis, but that hasn't stopped him from spending. So confident is he about the future, he recently went out shopping for a new refrigerator. "Judging from my job, my life, I think everything will become better and better," Lu says. And maybe for the entire world economy as well...
After studying psychology at Yale and then playing drums in a pop-music group that never hit it big, Prechter joined Merrill Lynch in 1975 to do technical analysis, also known as chart-reading - the search for patterns in the movements of securities. The most famous of technical approaches is Dow theory, a rough model of market waves originally described by Wall Street Journal co-founder Charles Dow at the turn of the 20th century and refined and popularized in the subsequent decades by Journal editor William Peter Hamilton. Prechter studied Dow theory but soon moved on to the mostly...
...first time you see someone dead, it's a shock. By the 10th time, you're walking over dead bodies and making sick jokes about what they had for breakfast. But all that stress accumulates." Says Marshéle: "Mark was like the captain of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. He had compartmentalized everything beautifully, but all these compartments were filling up with water. The ship was sinking, and he was the last to know...
Last night, Harvard only coughed the ball up 15 times and hit 22 of 24 from the charity stripe...
...government's focus on Ebadi seems to be designed to hit her before she regains too much power as the thorniest critic in the government's side. But the seizure of her Nobel medal and the threats against her family seem poorly calculated. "The irony of all this is that such policies give Ms. Ebadi more prominence," says Farideh Farhi, an Iran expert at the University of Hawaii. "In effect they make her harassment itself the human-rights message that they are trying so hard to prevent her from expressing...