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...perfect sense to do what they're doing. There still may be evidence present if something happened in the apartment. But remember, she's been there - if you find something of hers, so what! It doesn't mean anything. If there's a hair, maybe they just didn't vacuum well. It really depends on whether her biological specimen is there and they're able to glean some information from a thorough analysis...
...Aside from the potential of a shiny new bauble in Comcast's hostile $44.5 billion bid for AT&T Broadband, Wall Street has very little reason not to continue cashing in its chips this week. Friday's hefty selloff occurred in a complete optimism vacuum - why buy when unemployment is up, when the dollar won't quit, and when there's naught but dire second-quarter profit warnings in the air? And the bargain-hunters, as a crowd, are a long way from feeling bold enough to rush...
Certainly tech stocks were no slam dunk in the '50s, when transistors replaced the vacuum tube, or in the '60s, when microchips supplanted simple transistors. Those developments gave rise to the upstart Intel, while the shares of companies like Transitron Electronics melted away...
...Because while nature abhors a vacuum, what the financial world hates at a time like this is a puzzlement...
Even so, the idea of a cosmological constant wasn't entirely dead. The equations of quantum physics independently suggested that the seemingly empty vacuum of space should be seething with a form of energy that would act just like Einstein's disowned antigravity. Problem was, this force would have been so powerful that it would have blown the universe apart before atoms could form, let alone galaxies--which it clearly did not. "The value particle physicists predict for the cosmological constant," admits Chicago's Turner, "is the most embarrassing number in physics...