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...stage for a sustained advance. But there are special risks related to any such swoon this time around: Bank stocks are among the market's weakest, and a further drop in their shares could place these institutions in jeopardy. Further, another steep decline in stocks could trigger a new round of redemptions from hedge funds, which in turn could lead to more selling...
...says. According to Lea Bishop Shaver, a lecturer at Yale Law School, threatening to kill someone through an online forum "can land you in jail for assault, even if you never touch the person." But she added that making empty threats over the Internet rarely results in prosecution. "To trigger criminal prosecution, the threat has to be a serious one," Shaver says...
...town, so she could return to Tulsa. She was reportedly homesick. Foster reportedly refused. She asked again. But, Strain says, Foster pushed her to the ground. She reportedly got up, and approached him. Just then, Strain says, Foster drew a gun, raised it to her chin, and pulled the trigger...
...value has hovered at around 90 to the dollar for the past two weeks. But currency experts predict it could climb to 85 over the next few months - a level that could trigger intervention by the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan, which would buy dollars in currency markets to boost the greenback and undercut the yen. Some analysts say the exchange rate could soon reach 80 yen to the dollar. That would almost certainly spark another plunge in Japan's beleaguered stock markets - another concern for Japanese authorities...
...biases, including the fact that most of the trials relied on people's self-reported accounts of their sleeping habits. The scientists knew that teasing apart the myriad processes that contribute to sleep, and then drawing scientifically sound connections between them and the host of things that can trigger heart disease, would be difficult at best. So the Chicago team isolated the most common confounding variables that could explain both poor sleep and heart problems, such as smoking, alcohol, and other medical conditions, and also found a way to record, as accurately as possible, the amount of sleep that...