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...onto a several-thousand-mile journey wouldn't be too taxing. But for the estimated 500 million birds that migrate annually from Europe and Asia to Africa, surviving the journey is already difficult enough. Migrating birds - some of them as small as your fist - pack on body weight to stock fuel for the flight, sometimes doubling in size before they leave. Certain birds even shrink their internal organs to make themselves more energy-efficient. Migrating species today also have to contend with the gradual destruction of the wetlands and other oases they might use as refueling stops along their flight...
...pictures of the stock-market crash...
...there is anything good about the stock market catastrophe it is the skepticism that has become a part of the investor's way of thinking. Intel traded down because Wall St. read its comments as a "false positive." Investors look at its vague statements as being the equivalent of misleading. Intel clearly did not have any sinister intentions. It just hinted at something that isn't true because the broader economy does not lend it any credence...
...reasons it will take the stock market a very long time to get back to the level where it traded when the DJIA was above 14,000 is because the average stockholder believes that he was cheated. Corporations promoted their prospects. Almost none of them warned of the downturn in the economy or in their own business. Public companies turned themselves into charlatans, not because of what they said, but because of what they did not say. When businesses went bad, nearly everyone at big American companies became quiet. For Wall St. the silence was a betrayal and one which...
...April 14 news article "College Leads U.S. In Producing Economics Ph.D.s" incorrectly stated that Wendy A. Stock was a professor at Vanderbilt. In fact, she is a professor at Montana State...