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...seeing today, representing the stock market crashes of 1929 and 1987. The difference between the two: while the market quickly calmed down after 1987, it took years to regain a sense of normalcy after 1929. "We don't know if this is a '29 or '87 type of spike," Engle said. "We're all trying to figure that...
...rates, which have been slowly waning since the early '80s after 20 years of steadily rising. Those trajectories have been influenced more by the rise of the women's movement and women's earning power, lower fertility and changes in divorce laws than by dour Dows. The only recorded spike in divorces in the past 75 years came right after World...
...early films have the power to disorient, confuse, shock, and dazzle in a way that is totally isolated from the medium of popular cinema. Contemporary filmmakers whose work may be called “innovative” or “experimental” in passing (Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Guillermo del Toro) approach their work from the baseline that the audience must first be entertained, but never aspire to the same kind of radical evaluation of the craft that made Godard’s final peak-period film, 1967’s “Week...
...Sociologists say Ireland's linguistic renaissance and the nation?s spike in immigration are both triggered in part by the 'Celtic Tiger' - the growth phenomenon that has seen the Irish economy mushroom by over 150% since 1995. Years of EU infrastructural and educational support and a young and cheap labor force made Ireland a fertile ground for foreign investment in the domestic IT sector, among other industries, and the result has seen the average annual family income double to $93,000 in the past 10 years. Nic Ghiolla Phádraig says this new prosperity brought a sense of pride...
...overlap of mental and physical boosts makes sense, given the biochemistry that's in play when your body is massaged. Levels of feel-good neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine spike, while measures of the stress hormone cortisol drop. This is the same phenomenon that's at work when you feel the fabled runner's or exerciser's high, and it's also one of the things that makes a post-workout massage particularly satisfying. For people whose workouts lead to neck and back pain - or whose existing neck and back pain prevent them from exercising at all - massage...