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...this weekend's games will be the return of sophomore catcher Monica Montijo. Montijo suffered a massive leg injury that required 300 stitches when she was cleated over two weeks ago on the team's California road trip. Ironically, Montijo will be making her return against the same Golden Bear team that inflicted the leg injury...
...week trailed off, the markets were in an intriguing sort of convulsion, with the industrials on Thursday plummeting nearly 400 points into bear territory and a two-year low before careening back up to near-even at the close. (Both New York tabloids blared the same headline today: "Mad Dow Disease.") Friday morning the indexes were sunny - had the markets finally learned to swim with what Greenspan had already given them...
...know. So far, the indicators, especially unemployment and consumer confidence, seem to bear Greenspan out that the worst is over. But if the falling markets do wind up really rupturing consumer confidence, then all of Wall Street's nightmares could come true...
...markets sped up their stampede, driving the Dow into official "bear" territory and testing new 9,200 lows with a 250-point morning slide as the selling continued to spread beyond tech into Old Economy blue-chips. TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl checks the numbers and assesses the current state of things economic...
...problem is that while everybody likes the idea of a clean Earth, Americans aren't much for self-sacrifice. We drive SUVs and eschew public transportation, but can't bear high prices at the pump - and the "gas consumption tax" is political poison, deadlier than any arsenic. We own multiple TVs, surf the Internet, and run the air-conditioning while we're at work so the house is cool when we get home, but even in California, the most environmentally progressive state we've got, the mere mention of higher electricity bills as a demand-reducing measure sends shivers down...