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Investors worldwide were sharing the same anxiety over the weekend - and it arose early on Monday to take down markets everywhere. Hours before Wall Street woke up to a March snowstorm, Tokyo's chronically weak stock market avalanched 3.04%; shares of Hong Kong stocks were down steeply too, falling 3.68%; European markets were mostly off 4% or more. As the day progressed, Latin markets fell in tandem with U.S. - Argentina's bourse closed down...
...health experts are saying so far, so good. The vaccine appears to be effective against the most widely circulating strains of influenza, and there is plenty of the drug to go around. The only dark cloud has been a disturbing rise in drug-resistant flu, but new data published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggest that despite the resistant strain, things aren't as bad as they could be. (Read "What You Need to Know About Drug-Resistant...
...safe to assume Kathleen Sebelius files flawless tax returns. The popular Kansas governor, who will be introduced on Monday as Barack Obama's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, steps into the void opened by Tom Daschle's withdrawal from the role amid revelations that he failed to pay some $128,000 in taxes-the latest in an embarrassing series of tax snafus involving Obama's Cabinet nominees. An early convert to the Obama camp and a nascent star in the Democratic party, Sebelius' success guiding a deep-red heartland state vaulted her onto the short list...
Fare Sale. American Airlines is putting international destinations on sale. Fly Los Angeles-London for $203 each way, New York-Tokyo for $425 each way or Miami-Aruba for $135 each way. The fares are good for travel Monday through Thursday, or Monday thru Wednesday for the U.K. routes. Buy by March 10; all travel must be completed by May 20. Check the website for other details...
...line positions on both the Palestinian and Israeli sides, the prospect of bridging the gap between the two camps looks more remote than it has in eight years. Looking for a way into the problem, the U.S. and the international community are starting with delivering help to Gaza. On Monday, Clinton will attend an Arab-sponsored summit at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that aims to organize and fund the reconstruction of the devastated Palestinian enclave. The enormous suffering of civilians during the war makes the humanitarian mission a worthy end in itself. But as a diplomatic...