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...always happens when bubbles occur, naive neophytes, overconfident speculators and overleveraged money managers all leaned together on one side of the investment boat. When the boat became totally imbalanced it was enough for only a small wave-initially, the mere rumor of regulatory changes designed to cool China's stock fever-to sink the ship. On Feb. 27, China's main stock index fell 8.8%. Because of the huge leverage and increased computer trading that characterize modern finance, this sell-off triggered sharp declines in other markets from Russia to Malaysia, Japan...
Anyone who watches news or comedy or viral videos or listens to XM radio on a Treo, mobile phone or PC knows that MobiTV has been making waves. Just after its co-founders conceived the start-up's objective seven years ago--to solve the problem of large-scale, global data transmission on mobile devices--a eucalyptus branch fell outside Phillip Alvelda's Oakland Hills home, where the three sat brainstorming. The tree smashed his hot tub. Alvelda, a physicist, can probably explain the energy wave given off. But he could not necessarily say what triggered him and Paul Scanlan...
...mentally, says a family friend who has also worked for him. He loses himself in thought or a book or whatever he's doing and can't be raised or roused. When that happens, his daughters have a nickname for him: the Bull Walrus. And so they will wave their hands and affectionately call out their pet name for their dad - "Hey! Bull Walrus!" - as if he were sleeping on a big rock near the Arctic Sea. And then he'll come...
...wave of activism that followed the rioting that shook France late in 2005, banlieue residents have been registering en masse to vote in this year's presidential and legislative elections. And the results of those elections could be heavily influenced by millions of ethnic-minority first-time voters. But it's far from certain how they plan to vote. Some experts feel they'll back the left on promises of programs of suburban renewal, but others suspect they will confound conventional wisdom by backing the politician who mirrors their own outsider status in the French political mainstream...
Williams describes the special challenges facing members of ethnic minorities, who have not found identifying as feminists as easy as have the white middle-class women who characterized Second Wave Feminism. “For the black community, issues that we’re most involved with are things like health care, and poverty, and AIDS,” Williams says. “I think the basic issue at the corner of race and feminism is that if you’re a part of an ethnic minority, then you have more than one thing going...