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...slid more than 400 points and the NASDAQ more than 100, and if you?re looking for trends, the only thing worse than two straight days of hard-and-fast selling is two days of hard-and-fast selling sandwiched around a deep breath...
...Meanwhile, Asian markets spent the night jabbing at the panic button. Japan?s Nikkei and Hong Kong?s Hang Seng indexes both slid below its 10,000 level - and that was with innumerable stocks bumping against government-imposed curbs. South Korea's market took the heaviest hit, with the benchmark Kospi sinking 12 percent. Markets in Australia and New Zealand both lost just over 4 percent. Singapore ended down 7.4 percent...
...River as it rushes down from Tibet. The hike can only be done in early summer after the snows melt and before the monsoon turns the mountains to mud. On the other side of the pass, trekkers must traverse a glacier after being linked together with ropes. We safely slid the last 200 m to the bottom, but our stores, which the porters launched after us, smashed into the rocks below with a crunch that could only mean we had had our last egg breakfast. On another occasion, we were hauled on ropes from boulder to boulder across a wild...
...Tigers seemed satisfied with a tie on the road against the powerful Crimson, until Courtney Kitchen broke free on a feed from Reyes and slid the ball past Gunther for the game-winner with 1:15 left on the clock. Despite the loss, Coach Tim Wheaton remained optimistic about his team after the game...
...more stunt?that somewhere, somehow, the short, wiry activist, hardened by years of living in extreme conditions, was alive and reveling in the swirl of mystery surrounding his disappearance. Manser was, after all, a man who would do almost anything to get publicity for his cause. In 1996, he slid almost 3 km down a half-frozen funicular railway cable in Switzerland; three years later, he buzzed the capital of Malaysia's Sarawak province in a motorized hang glider. According to Roger Graf, who joined Manser in the mid-1980s to try to stop logging in Sarawak, where the tribe...