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...evolved from basic stories about diseases and diets toward growing emphasis on fitness and prevention. Some try to help readers communicate better with doctors; others try to help readers avoid doctors altogether. Demystifying the latest scientific studies is still a staple, but newsletters increasingly help sort fact from rumor, especially in alternative health. "It's a really wonderful time to be involved," says Dale Ogar, managing editor of the University of California, Berkeley, Wellness Letter, "because so much is changing...
...over this market like a hammer. There's a big fear that Alan Greenspan has no room to move. The rally at the end of the day was a good sign, although it'd be more encouraging if it had happened on its own instead of on a Fed rumor...
...being genuine, the general must have been the only person in Manila not imagining a coup last week?and the rumor mill had them coming from all sides. The biggest warning was that uniformed loyalists of Joseph Estrada could be planning an armed comeback for their ousted ex-Commander in Chief, who was holed up in his posh mansion in San Juan, a Manila suburb, reportedly drinking lots of expensive red wine. General Espinosa was supposedly marshalling his forces for a truly petty reason: he was one of the first generals to decide to abandon Estrada two weeks...
...first day, everyone knew something was going on. People were saying the principal's going to resign. Any rumor that you can imagine teenagers coming up with came up," she says...
...Which is not to suggest the Fed sat on its hands Wednesday. The half-point cut, thoroughly expected by the markets, did spark a "buy-the-rumor-sell-the-news" mini-slump, but clearly this was not the abject disappointment that a quarter-point drop in the bucket would have been, and the next month should be relatively happy one on the Street. After taking back that roundly criticized (mostly in hindsight) May half-point hike in January, Greenspan has now done it again, lopping off another half-point, and stands ready to pull a February surprise just like January...