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...last year, had no inflation and near zero interest rates. Ideal ingredients for a booming stock market. Yet Japan's stock market is rolling like a snowball down Mount Fuji. The Nikkei 225 index dropped more than 10% so far this year, to 17689,and some 55% off its peak of 38915, reached...
...himself believed that "every form of significant art from Bellini to Henri Rousseau has ultimately been abstract." But Beckmann was always a contradictor, a towering imagination that made no concessions to the fashions or political pressures of his time. And in the Guggenheim's show one sees the very peak of his work: seven of the nine triptychs (three-panel paintings, based on the format of church altarpieces) that he painted immediately before and during his exile...
Throughout the semester, the channel between the mail server and the FAS machine clogged considerably during peak use, leading to slow mail delivery and long log-in waits...
...good news is that for the first time since 1900, the overall cancer death rates in the U.S. are coming down. According to a report published last week in the journal Cancer, the number of cancer deaths fell from a peak of 135 per 100,000 in 1990 to 130 last year--a 3.1% drop. Even more encouraging, that trend seems to be accelerating. Experts predict that within 20 years, deaths from cancer could easily be cut an additional 25%, and with luck they could be cut in half. As Health Secretary Donna Shalala proudly declared last week...
Steen said the primary server was down in October for improvements designed to accommodate the system's expanding workload, already twice as high as last year's peak...