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...NELSON, NEBRASKA...
...Doug Nelson, SAN JOSE, CALIF...
...market waves originally described by Wall Street Journal co-founder Charles Dow at the turn of the 20th century and refined and popularized in the subsequent decades by Journal editor William Peter Hamilton. Prechter studied Dow theory but soon moved on to the mostly forgotten work of Ralph Nelson Elliott, an accountant who, while bedridden in the 1930s, charted stock-price movements and found intricate patterns based on the Fibonacci number sequence (in which, after 0 and 1, each number is the sum of the previous two: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.). The Fibonacci series, like pi, appears...
...Honduran streets, people expressed mixed feelings about the vote. Shopkeeper Nelson Hernandez said he had liked Zelaya but now intends to cast his ballot for Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, the center-right timber magnate who is leading the polls. "We need security in this country and I think Pepe can give us that," he said. In second place is businessman Elvin Santos, who is a member of Zelaya's Liberal Party but is a vocal critic of the ousted president. (Zelaya himself could not run even if he was in power, as presidents are restricted to one term.) Three other candidates...
...included (pro-choice) or left out (pro-life). So it's up to the Senate to find a workable compromise. On the face of it, the Senate is more heavily pro-choice than the House, with only 40 solid pro-life votes (38 Republicans plus Casey and Ben Nelson of Nebraska). But with practically no Republicans except for Maine's Olympia Snowe looking even open to the possibility of voting for the Senate bill, majority leader Harry Reid will need every single one of his caucus' votes. What's more, there are seven additional Democrats who have in the past...