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...with the Dow Jones Industrials closing below the market low set back in November 2008. The Dow had dipped below the November low earlier in the week but finished the day higher. Thursday's close below the November low is to some a confirmation of the market's bearish trend, implying lower prices ahead. The Dow index, which finished the day at 7465.79, is down 10% over the last eight trading days, and is also at a new five-year low. (See the top 10 Dow Jones drops of all time...
...recognizing that I was not alone in my obsession. Carrie Bradshaw and “Sex and the City” brought high-society glamour to cupcakes when the show featured them in 2000. Back in 2003, The New York Times wrote articles touting the “swelling trend in cupcakes.” And even my hometown of Chicago repeatedly boasts “cupcake crawls” of the city. But negative attention has also come to these confections. Cupcakes have even become a symbol for controversy over the past few years, embodying...
...BUCKING THE TREND...
...According to national data from 1997 to 2007, the overall rate of MRSA infections among some of the most vulnerable patients in a hospital - those in the intensive-care unit (ICU) - dropped by nearly 50%. That downward trend was true of all bloodstream infections among ICU patients, including infections with strains of staph that can be controlled with antibiotics, reports Dr. Deron Burton, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in a study in the Feb. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. (See the most...
...elimination of term limits in Venezuela could firmly establish a trend that, according to those who oppose such restrictions, will strengthen democracy by allowing voters to decide how long a popular leader can stick around. Term-limit proponents, however, say Chávez's triumph will only carry the region back to its authoritarian past. "What Venezuelan voters decide is their business," says John Walsh, a senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America, an independent think tank. "But a threshold does seem to have been crossed...