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...unusual for prices to tumble in the post-Christmas January sales. But this year, there's more unwanted stock than ever. Shares across Europe traded down Tuesday, a day after registering their biggest single-day slide since September 11, 2001. London's FTSE 100 index fell 5.5% Monday, swiping $150 billion off the value of Britain's blue-chip firms. The sell-offs were brisk in Asia, too. Shares in China skidded more than 7% to a 5-month low Tuesday; markets even suspended trading in India and South Korea on the back of heavy losses...
...exchanges around the world swooned, from east to west, as investors, spooked by more fallout from the subprime crisis and credit crunch, failed to be reassured that a $145 billion stimulus package rolled out by the Bush Administration would do much to keep the U.S. economy afloat. The main index in Hong Kong dropped 5.5%, its biggest percentage loss since Sept. 11, 2001. India's benchmark shed 7.4%. In Europe, Britain fell 5.5%, France 6.8%, and Germany 7.2%. Brazilian stocks dropped 6.6% and Canada's main index lost 4.8%. In the U.S., markets were closed for the Martin Luther King...
...stakes for Afghan society are high. Every social and economic index shows that countries with a higher percentage of women with a high school education also have better overall health, a more functional democracy and increased economic performance. There's another payoff that is especially important to Afghanistan: educated women are a strong bulwark against the extremism that still plagues Afghanistan, underscored by the Jan. 14 bombing of a luxury hotel in Kabul, which killed eight. "Education is the factory that turns animals into human beings," says Ghulam Hazrat Tanha, Herat's director of education. "If women are educated, that...
...kidding. Hong Kong's economy has been on a tear lately: bolstered by a booming mainland and the Hong Kong dollar's peg to a weakening U.S. currency, the Hang Seng Index gained 39% in 2007. A recent survey by TNS and Gallup International showed that Hong Kong people are the most optimistic in the world on the general outlook for 2008, with 71% expecting the coming year to be better than the last. All that prosperity is causing headaches for Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, who are finding it harder to make their cause relevant. In November...
...predisposition to become tense or have a physical reaction, like nausea or hyperventilation, to stressful situations. Even after accounting for other mood problems, like depression or anger, and for a whole host of physiological and demographic indicators - including age, body mass index, education, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and smoking and drinking habits - the effect of chronic anxiety was clear. It was also a stronger risk factor for heart attack than any of the other psychological problems in the study...