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That concern is widely echoed in economist circles--and widely ignored on Main Street, where millions of people have soured on the stock market and gone sweet on real estate. Even last week's 489-point one-day rally won't do much to change that view. Darren Scheid, 32, and his wife Paula live in a north Dallas suburb in Texas, and last year sold their first home for $80,000, 66% more than they paid for it just three years earlier. The gain prompted the Scheid's to stop sulking over their sunken stocks and focus on building...
...five Israeli settlers in Itamar on the West Bank. EUROPE Empty Skies Travel plans were thrown into chaos as air-traffic controllers went on strike to protest an E.U. plan to put the Continent's airspace under international controls. Almost all French short-haul flights were affected by the one-day walkout, which also hit Greece, Hungary, Italy and Portugal. General strikes in Greece and Spain complicated the situation for travelers. The air-traffic controllers objected to the E.U.'s Single-Skies plan, which would replace national airspaces with zones of control based on international air corridors. French air-traffic...
Sophomore Meredith Chiampa tied for first with a round of 80 in the one-day tournament and defeated Boston College’s Roxanne Somboonsiri in a playoff for the individual title...
...Wicket Ways An icon to fans in his native India, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to reach 10,000 one-day runs. The only record the modest 28-year-old is in no danger of grabbing is the 99.94 Test average of Australia's Sir Donald Bradman, who died this year...
...terrorists, I am at the mercy of the instructors at Centurion Risk Assessment Services, a British company that offers "hostile environment courses" for journalists and aid workers headed for politically unstable regions. Conducted by former British marine and army officers at a training camp an hour from London, the one-day course teaches me to identify mines hidden in fields, explosives rigged in packages and booby traps disguised as everyday objects. I have learned to drag an injured colleague to safety before starting first aid, and I discovered that by counting the seconds between the thud of a mortar being...