Word: midday
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...midday Thursday, the sellers weren't done yet. Juniper Networks, one of the high-flying bellwethers of the sector (which has lately been a sometime bellwether for the rest of NASDAQ), dipped below $200 during Wednesday's bloodbath and kept on going, hitting $170 at noon Thursday. Corning (more than oven-safe dishes, folks!) is below $70 and off more than 30 percent on the week. Cisco is back down in the very low fifties...
...limestone more than 2,000 years ago, and throws stone after stone at the Israeli riot police. Below him, a middle-aged Jew flees the barrage, holding on to his black yarmulke as he runs, shouting, "Death to the Arabs!" A minute before, these two were praying in the midday heat--one at al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest shrine in Islam, and the other 100 yards away at the Western Wall, revered by Jews as the place of prayer closest to the site of their biblical temple. That abrupt transformation from worship to violence--it occurred in a flash...
...soon. The Israelis felt compelled to respond swiftly and brutally to the killing of two of their soldiers who?d been under the protection of Arafat?s police, but the air strikes will only harden Palestinian resolve and inflame militants in Arafat?s territories to raise the ante themselves. Midday prayers in the Palestinian mosques Friday are unlikely to pass peacefully...
...sense, of course, our treatment of Rocker is nothing unique. For years, we've watched the always predictable moralizing of talk show audiences, and we've reveled in the barked reprimands of that cadre of midday judges who clot the television airwaves. We like watching other people get criticized, and we love the chance to do it ourselves. Indeed, our treatment of Rocker is only an extension of all this. And yet, of course, there must be a line...
...three e-mails to high-school pals, or one coffee-break or surfing two Internet sites? We also have to create conditions in which we can sleep properly. So we have to practice what doctors call "good sleep hygiene": wind down before going to bed, avoid caffeine after midday and don't sneak daytime naps...