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...With George W. Bush possibly sustaining a lead of fewer than 400 votes after last week's statewide recount, the outcome in Florida, and thus the nation, has shifted to the most low-tech of fronts. Everything hinges on the absentee votes still drifting in from abroad, which are not expected to be fully counted until this Friday. Even more important, because they could easily reverse Bush's narrow lead, are the manual recounts that have been approved by local electoral commissions in Palm Beach, Broward and Volusia counties...
...NASDAQ falls through and keeps on going, it'll likely be for its own reasons - and a deep, serious correction in the tech sector could be the foundation of a real rally. Except that it's hard to see a real rally taking root without a president-elect. If this drags on, and the markets finally run out of patience, both Al Gore and George W. Bush will deserve some responsibility...
...World Health Organization team that responded to the epidemic--five months after it began, illustrating a failure in global disease surveillance--simply implemented classic early-20th-century public health measures. No high-tech solutions were needed: hand washing, quarantine, cessation of funeral practices, contact tracing and public education about the virus were sufficient to conquer Ebola...
...Central Intelligence Agency, fret continuously about such things. There is genuine fear that the U.S. will be caught off guard by a dangerous microbe. After all, it's happened before; many times, most notably with HIV and hepatitis C. There is a tendency in such circles to seek high-tech solutions in the form of microbe sensors and automated early-warning systems...
...word is "capitulation." The bloodbath of bloodbaths, in which investors tear their hair out and run shrieking from the room. Traders insist that while there has been tech overselling this month - overselling that was drawing buyers Tuesday - it just doesn't feel like it's run its course. Not to mention that every one of NASDAQ's 5 percent days has been met with selling soon after...