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...Whipsawed by the contradictory views, investors who had bought stocks on Bernanke's optimistic remarks sold them on Greenspan's dour pronouncements, taking Wall Street into its biggest one-day drop in three years, capping off five consecutive day of losses...
...hour first marriage to her unconventional parenting techniques with her second hubby, a back-up dancer. Spears' recent post-divorce wild-child phase has escalated from pantyless cavorting with Paris Hilton to a self-administered buzz cut at a beauty salon in California's San Fernando Valley. Between one-day dips in and out of rehab facilities in Antigua and Malibu, Calif., Spears also got new tattoos--a cross on her hip and red-and-pink lips on her wrist--and partied pitiably in a blond wig. Meanwhile, the proprietors of the Tarzana, Calif., salon where she shaved her head...
...days: industry-funded organizations are using them in a bid to boost trade, too. England's Beer Academy, beeracademy.org, was launched in 2003, with the support of breweries and beer retailers, to promote the idea that choosing suds is no less sophisticated than selecting fine wines. It offers a one-day foundation course ($287) at historic pubs and breweries in London, Manchester and other locations. Participants learn the finer points of wheat beers, dark lagers, old ales and so on. "Our beer choices are global, and our intention is to let anyone who comes to our courses understand beer...
Though the Administration has so far ignored Hyder, 24 physicists, including Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow, joined in a one-day sympathy fast with him and signed a letter in support of his goals, though not of his tactics. "I hope he decides not to fast to his death," said Glashow, "Maybe then he can live to see his dreams come true...
...Peter Post, a director of the Emily Post Institute, reports a big uptick in his business. "We've been growing by leaps and bounds in the last couple of years," says Post, who gave 32 seminars in 2006, twice as many as the year before. The price for such one-day in-house corporate seminars ranges from $2,500 to $8,000. "There is a real desire on businesses' part to remedy a problem that they're seeing in their workforce. They have people coming in, or who are already in the workforce, who may have the job skills...