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When the probe hits home, Rezai asks Stipp to perform a few tasks. Can he touch his index fingers together? Raise a cup to his lips? Sign his name? Stipp can do none of it. Then Rezai sends a few volts through the wire. Stipp's tremors calm. His index fingers meet. He signs the paper. "It's been a long time since I did that," he says wonderingly...
...loss represented a 1 percent decrease for the endowment, based on Tuesday's figures. But even with a downturn in the market in July, when the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell by 3.1 percent, El-Erian said that the endowment showed a monthly gain of .4 percent largely because of the new risk management strategies in place...
...That's an increasingly common wish in China, where after years of high economic growth and relatively stable consumer prices, inflation is back on the table - and a bitter fruit it is. China's Consumer Price Index showed a 5.6% year-over-year increase in July, the sharpest rise in more than a decade. Food prices soared 15.4%, with meat and poultry alone rising 45% due to shortages caused by outbreaks of livestock disease as well as severe flooding in agricultural areas. But it's not just food prices that are taxing consumers. The costs of rents and mortgages were...
...Real House Price Index...
This month FORTUNE, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and MONEY will be publishing a series of reports on New Orleans. Articles from these and other Time Inc. publications marking the second anniversary of Katrina will be hosted on TIME.com You will find an updated index of those pieces at time.com/katrina This is our fifth cover story on New Orleans since Katrina, and probably not the last. But if there is one reason to believe that this great American city can rise again, it is the resilience of its people. Over dinner in the French Quarter one night, we heard from several...