Word: weeks
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...these are the professionals. As you've probably heard by now, the stock market, like some dim-witted clerk, applies a generous markdown to what it can't figure out. Thus the NASDAQ index fell 12% during election week and plunged again last Monday, crashing below 3000. It bounced back on Tuesday but was dishearteningly choppy the rest of the week. The Dow has been on its own treacherous sawtooth course, breaking the will of many who had expected a year-end rally to take shape...
Statins were much in the news last week. They are so successful in preventing heart attacks that researchers are furiously investigating all the other things these drugs might be doing for the heart besides lowering cholesterol levels. It turns out that the noncholesterol effects of statins, such as controlling clotting and inflammation, may be as important as the cholesterol effects. In a study of patients given atorvastatin (Lipitor) as soon as they arrived at a hospital complaining of chest pain, it was found that those who took the drug for four weeks after their cardiac event were significantly less likely...
...Gore may keep his bald spot out of sight by avoiding certain camera angles, but last week there was no hiding the giant boil on George W. Bush's face. His bulging Band-Aid drew a lot of attention, so we asked a few cosmetic experts for better ways of dealing with such a large blemish...
...intimidate those who intimidate others." They worked the city's most violent neighborhoods, met firepower with firepower and succeeded in bringing gang-related crimes down 60% from 1992 to 1999. But the unit has been roiled by charges that its Dirty Harry tactics went too far, and last week a jury finally called it to account. In the first of what may be a series of trials, three Rampart officers were found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct justice by planting evidence and framing gang members. A fourth was acquitted. The intimidators face two to four years in jail...
Those found by the jury to be bad cops were still defending their actions last week. "I believe we did our job keeping the citizens of L.A. safe from all the gangs and crime that is going on out there," said Sergeant Edward Ortiz after he and Sergeant Brian Liddy and Officer Michael Buchanan were found guilty...