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...banking-stock group that benefits by offloading its weaklings. A stock sector known as "consumer discretionary," which includes everything from automakers to fast-food retailers, is enjoying a more bullish earnings outlook too, thanks - you guessed it - to the dropping of GM stock, which had been a load of lead on the sector's profitability. As a result of offloading GM, earnings for the group are expected to rise...
...Twitter, have turned out by the thousands to protest their putrid judicial system and festoon Rosenberg's murder scene with banners. "Older people say they haven't seen an awakening like this in 60 years," says Alejandro Quinteros, 26, a cherubic fast-food manager and political novice who helps lead the National Civic Movement. "We're not afraid anymore...
...Swearing increases your pain tolerance," says Richard Stephens, a psychologist and lead author of the study, which was published this week in the journal NeuroReport. Although the experiment's initial hypothesis was inspired by anecdotal evidence from some pain researchers that swearing was actually a maladaptive behavior that served only to make things worse, Stephens' findings showed exactly the opposite. "The No. 1 priority is to make the pain go away. If [swearing] made the pain worse, that would be illogical," Stephens says, adding that you hardly need a scientific study to bear out the theory...
...September (Israel accuses the international body of bias and has declined to cooperate with the probe). The latest salvo came on July 15, when Breaking the Silence - a human-rights organization of Israeli military veterans - published anonymous testimony allegedly recorded from some 30 Israeli soldiers involved in Operation Cast Lead. (See pictures of the damage suffered by Gaza after the Israeli invasion...
...during the operation. While it said that mistakes led to civilian casualties in one or two isolated cases, the IDF concluded that there had been no instances of civilians deliberately killed by the defense force. Amnesty International and Palestinian sources say 1,400 Palestinians were killed during Operation Cast Lead, and that more than 900 of these were civilians, including 300 children and 115 women. The IDF in March put the Palestinian death toll at 1,166, of whom it said 295 were "uninvolved" civilians. Thirteen Israelis - three civilians and 10 soldiers, four of them felled by "friendly fire" - were...