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...figure for such deep antiquity - they have left behind few towering monuments or epic ruins. Instead, we have clues in miniature, a copper figurine of a mercurial dancing girl, for example, and a treasure trove of delicately carved seals, most no larger than a postage stamp. "They are a window into how these people were thinking," says Vahia. "And they can tell us, in a sense...
Stock prices usually reflect underlying value. But stocks can also be affected by things like summer vacations among hedge fund managers, or by late-December window-dressing by mutual-fund managers who want to have the hot performers in their portfolio at year's end. Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer, tells TIME's John Curran why these seasonal tea leaves are now bullish...
...Lahore was Aug. 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day. As midnight approached, Pakistanis, primarily of the lower and middle classes, flooded the city’s streets, jamming them with bumper-to-bumper traffic. People sat atop motorbikes and stuck their heads out of soapbox car windows, dancing and singing, drunk on patriotism. As I stared out the car window, I wondered what these people had to celebrate. Sixty-two years after Pakistan was founded, its future remains uncertain, and frankly, it is completely out of the hands of these average people...
...religious beliefs in recent years, sometimes breaking out into song and claiming that God spoke to him through a box. "In the last couple years he started getting into this strange religious stuff. We kind of felt sorry for him," said Tim Allen, president of East County Glass and Window Inc. in Pittsburg, Calif., who bought business cards and letterhead from Garrido's printing business for the last decade...
...Paul H. Earley, medical director at Atlanta's Talbott Recovery Campus, equates abusing the drug to playing Russian roulette. "There is a very narrow window to go from feeling euphoric to be being unconscious to being unconscious and not breathing," says Earley. In a closely monitored operating theater, doctors can make quick adjustments to avoid problems. Abusers have no such recourse for a drug that acts so quickly that they often injure themselves immediately by falling. Earley says that a center that specializes in drug abuse among medical professionals started to see early signs of propofol abuse five years...