Perhaps that is because valuations are so confusing, with assets priced far outside their familiar range; or perhaps it is because people expect prices to fall further.
Pratuhr was suspicious but Nod assured him the Sisterhood had authorized the sale to raise desperately needed funds but wanted to keep it quiet to hide their dire situation.
The boys procured some twine and borrowed a lure from their unsuspecting father, a three-inch metal spoon which they attached upside down and then threw into the water a few yards behind their boat.
"When I was at school, I believed in the saying, 'Knowledge can help you turn over a new leaf,'" says Guo. "But since I've started working, I only half-believe it."
Klim, probably reflecting that a real robber would have vanished long ago with the horse and cart, came out of the forest and went hesitatingly up to his passenger.
Hillary says the first time she ever saw me, I was in the Yale Law School lounge bragging to skeptical fellow students about the size of Hope watermelons.
Even when the hype is discounted, decoding the 3bn chemical "letters" of the genome is likely to have a huge impact on science, medicine and our perception of what it means to be human.