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...where U.S. phone companies enjoy competitive advantages similar to Telstra's. "The warning signs are there for AT&T and Verizon," says Budde. "Things won't change overnight, but open networks are coming to America. If the stimulus package works I'm 100% sure they're not going to stop there...
...play tricks. A small piece of economic information, like one month of very modestly improved housing numbers or one week of a slight decrease in jobless claims, sets off a chain reaction. If one set of numbers is OK, the next set will be better. Real estate prices will stop falling everywhere, if they stop falling in hard hit Nevada. (See pictures of Las Vegas...
...Similarly, speculators play their own self-protection game, which can add to bearish momentum. As markets tumble, the crash becomes exacerbated by traders' stop-loss orders, which automatically initiate more selling as the price falls. In other words, as traders who had bought hog contracts at a higher price begin to lose money on their long positions, they are forced to sell them before their losses escalate. (See the top five swine...
...detractors. From survey results, some sexologists estimate that about 10 percent of women ejaculate during orgasm ... Why don't more women experience ejaculation? It seems that the initial sensation ... is similar to the feeling women get when they need to pee. Not surprisingly, many women put a stop to the stimulation right there. They don't know it's leading to ejaculation and they don't want to pee in the presence of their partners." (Read "Help for Sex-Starved Wives...
...theory of evolution is supposed to include the survival of the fittest and adapt or die, yet environmentalists rail against the extinction of certain species, the natural result of evolution. Their efforts to stop this natural process leads one to ask, just who do they think they are? God? Ian Stuart, DINGWALL, SCOTLAND...