Word: trading
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Okay, so touring a gargantuan model of your word processor wasn't what you had in mind. Maybe an hour or two at the World Trade Center's Titanica exhibit will flood you with emotion the same way Kate Winslet did when she sobbed, "I'll never let go." Or maybe it won't. Even if you're long past the Titanic movie phase, this exhibit is still fascinating. Examine jewelry, furnishings, and currency removed from the legendary ship, and then scurry over to the IMAX film Titanica. First showing: 9 a.m.; last showing: 8 p.m. World Trade Center Boston...
...become serious problems," he says. "People, isolated from their families and forced to endure hardship they never imagined, just snap." Then there is the constant pressure from the gangs who brought them over and continue to see the immigrants as better guarantees of meal tickets than their old heroin trade. Twice in the past year, gang members surrounded the Bowery quarters, blocked the fire escapes, then calmly robbed the residents of their savings. The victims didn't complain, they said, because they feared retaliation against their families in China if they caused trouble for the gangs. Says one: "We have...
Murray has the backing of the biggest local industries because she's with them on China trade. But she doesn't have all business on her side. "I believe in smaller government, local control, less taxes and more personal freedoms," Steven O'Donnell, an investment-brokerage executive and Smith supporter, said after being thoroughly unimpressed by a Murray speech to the Bellevue Rotary Club. "I like somebody with a lot of fire." But at the labor rally in Spokane, Murray's next-door-neighbor style got a different response. She isn't slick and hasn't been corrupted by Washington...
...Arafat seemed to hear the passionate appeal of Natan Sharansky, former Soviet prisoner of conscience, now Trade and Industry Minister, for "a public effort to recognize our needs." At the White House ceremony, the P.L.O. leader offered a new empathy for Israelis: "We are fully committed to whatever is required from us to achieve real security and constant peace for every Israeli person and for the Israeli people...I will do everything I can so that no Israeli mother will be worried if her son or daughter is late coming home...
...jungle of Wall Street, the male warrior doesn't reign supreme. Women are simply better investors than men, according to a new study by Brad M. Barber and Terrance Odean of the University of California at Davis. The reason is no big surprise: overconfident males take too many risks, trade too often and earn 1.4% lower annual returns than females...