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...midst of the controlled chaos of practice, with couples looping in and out of each other’s paths, Oppenheimer taps her silver ballroom shoes across the floor in the brief moments of rest. Her feet move like lightning and it produces a crisp clatter that can be heard over the din of the practice room...
...global economic crash, news of a potential pandemic came as a further blow. "As if we didn't have enough to contend with," strategists at the Royal Bank of Scotland wrote in a note to clients Monday, "it's just what we need now, a flu pandemic in the midst of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression." Amid the sell-off, travel industry stocks fell sharpest. Shares in Lufthansa, Europe's second-largest airline, tumbled by more than 12% before recovering slightly. Those of rival British Airways pulled back from similar lows, trading 8% down by mid-afternoon...
...Pfizer (PFE) may be the best proxy for the fortunes of large U.S. pharmaceutical companies. It has a market cap of more than $88 billion and annual revenue of almost $50 billion, making it the largest drug company in the world. It is in the midst of buying rival Wyeth for $68 billion and is cutting staff and costs rapidly as some of its most profitable drugs lose their patent protections, a problem across the entire industry. Pfizer has a short interest of almost 174 million shares. and average daily trading volume of 54 million shares. Pfizer traded at over...
...count. Older bands fare better for technological reasons; advances in transferring music from analog to digital mean that most records from the '70s and '80s sound demonstrably better, even to amateur ears. "That's a big selling point," says Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who are in the midst of reissuing three of their early albums. "People who care about sound really care. Our records were too tinny and didn't have enough low end. We've fixed that...
Some Harvard students studying in France may face the loss of a semester of education in the midst of a revolt that has gripped several of the nation’s universities since February. Schools in France have been forced to cancel classes and scramble for order while discontent with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s handling of a bold higher education reform program has erupted into strikes and walkouts. For some of the 12 Harvard undergraduates who, according to the Office of International Programs, are currently studying in Paris, the situation has posed difficulties. French professors have used...