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...last hour of trading on Thursday, Oct. 23, 1929, stock prices suddenly plummeted. When the closing bell rang at 3 p.m. people were shaken. No one was sure what had just happened, but that evening provided enough time for fear and panic to set in. When the market opened again the next day, prices plunged with renewed violence. Stock transactions in those days were printed on ticker tape, which could only produce 285 words a minute. Thirteen million shares changed hands - the highest daily volume in the exchange's history at that point - and the tape didn't stop running...
...damage from last Thursday's bomb blast in downtown Zagreb that killed Ivo Pukanic, one of Croatia's top media moguls, and his advertising manager, Niko Franic, will not be confined to the casualties. The attack has cast doubt over whether Croatia can curb rampant corruption and organized crime and achieve its goal of joining the European Union next year...
...past, to fight for his election to the finish, and to "fight this unjust verdict with every ounce of energy I have." Said Stevens: "I am innocent." He will head to Alaska later this week, presumably to take part in a debate with his opponent on Thursday...
...such as pollution, fuel costs, and hazardous waste disposal. “If you’re going to have a real culture of environmentalism and sustainability, it needs to be made relevant to all communities,” Hoyte said. That was the sentiment echoed at a panel Thursday night in Kirkland House, where activists from the Boston area spoke on how their organizations are drawing connections to environmentalism. Aaron K. Tanaka ’04, who works with a group called the Boston Workers’ Association, described his organization’s efforts to give unemployed workers...
...General Education committee approved three classes last Thursday at its second meeting of the year, bringing the total number of courses in the new curriculum to 54. Two of the three classes approved were in the sciences—an area in which the committee has had trouble recruiting professors to teach new courses for a general audience. The environmental science course Science B-35: “How To Build a Habitable Planet” will count toward Gen Ed’s Science of the Physical Universe requirement. Life and Physical Sciences A: “Foundational Chemistry...