Word: points
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...Facebook, British comedian Peter Serafinowicz urged his 268,000-plus Twitter followers to join in. Even Sir Paul McCartney signaled his approval in an interview with Sky News, saying "it would be kind of funny if Rage Against the Machine got it [Number 1] because it would prove a point," although this didn't stop the former Beatle from appearing with McElderry on The X Factor finale earlier this month. (See pictures of Susan Boyle's road to fame...
Wait a second. Will the stock market go up or down? That major discrepancy raises an important point. Making predictions a year out is a tricky - and unreliable - business...
...this stuff all the time when you're in the business, but there's this time in December or January when you put it on paper," says Bob Doll, BlackRock's chief investment officer of global equities, another strategist known for his annual predictions. "It gives you something to point back to and say, What did I get right and wrong and what did I learn from...
Such data will be available only after the flu season ends next spring, at which point researchers can study hospital records of children who were treated for H1N1 infection. Only then can they compare those who received both doses of the vaccine to those who missed their second shot, and see if one or the other group was more likely to come down with...
...plant and nurture at least five trees in one's lifetime. However, governments should focus on systematic and sustainable tree plantation and conservation programs. Varieties that are indigenous, fruit bearing, oxygen enriching and medicinal should be planted instead of disorganized planting drives that just inflate numbers. A case in point is the mass planting of a eucalyptus species in India a couple of decades ago that turned out to be disastrous for water levels in some areas. Properly done, the tree bank of the globe will bloom and so will the prospects for our polluted planet. Bhaskar Ganti Kanpur, India...