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...according to the book). The guide's page-long entries each include a lively explanation as to why you would want to go, basic logistics information, prices and hotel phone numbers, making it both an easy read and an insightful travel primer. For the special-interest explorer, the index also sorts destinations into categories such as museums, adventure, food and the ancient world. One word of warning, however: with everything from the Tuscan hills to Ipanema beach listed in loving detail, reading 1,000 Places to See Before You Die is not going to be easy if you're deskbound...
...This is an out-of-conference game, and an NCAA RPI [Rating Points Index] game,” junior goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris agreed. “Whether or not we are 5-0 or 4-1 or 2-2-1, we still have to win this game...
...appear to be at greater risk of heart disease than men with more robust social networks. The researchers looked at marital status, number of close friends and family members, and participation in social and religious clubs. Compared with men in the highest quartile on the social-network index, men in the lowest fourth had significantly greater blood levels of C-reactive protein and interleukin-6, substances that are associated with inflammation and are believed to be markers for cardiovascular disease. Curiously, researchers found no such link between social well-being and heart disease risk among the women they studied...
Pischetsrieder insists the strategy will pay off once the new cars take hold with consumers. Investors seem to think so. VW's share price rallied 34% from the start of the year to early November, outperforming the Dow Jones auto index by 14 percentage points. The Touareg is off to a strong sales start, both here and in Europe. The Phaeton is not. Available in Europe for more than a year, it has been no threat to the Mercedes S Class and the BMW 7 Series, selling less than 8,000 units (in 2002 BMW sold 14,670 7 Series...
...York City quantitative-research firm, ran a so-called economic-stress test, which analyzes statistical correlations between currency moves and the markets. If the euro and the yen each rise an additional 10% against the dollar from levels in early November, the study found, the Lehman Aggregate Bond Index could slip 0.6%, which means that a $10,000 bond would lose about $60. It would cost the S&P 500 index 3.4%, the NASDAQ 4.5% and the Dow 3.2%. On opposite shores, RiskMetrics found that the weaker dollar could cause the FTSE 100 to edge up 0.43%, while the Nikkei...