So whats the eariliest  for hitting 7k?
http://money.cnn.com/2002/07/19/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm
"According to preliminary reports, the Dow fell 390.23 to 8,019.26, to its
lowest level since January 1998. The Nasdaq composite index lost 37.94 to
1,319.01. The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 34.03 to 847.53.
The index has fallen more than 1,000 points in the past two weeks and
closed down nine of the last 10 sessions. Both the Nasdaq and S&P are near
their lowest levels since the first half of 1997.
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On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 19:00, Karl Anderson wrote:
> Dave Long <dl@silcom.com> writes:
>
> > > It also strikes me that it will not be very long before livestock is
> > > genetically engineered to be dumber and meatier, and better adapted to
> > > living in industrial conditions.
> >
> > If we're willing to count artificial
> > selection as genetic engineering, it
> > has been happening since pre-literate
> > times, and is called "domestication".
>
> But we're not willing to count it, I hope, since it isn't, any more
> than natural selection is genetic engineering.
It's quite a bit more than natural selection; the times had a
fascinating article a few months back (possibly posted as bits here)
that note that one Holstein bull who died in the 70s is paternally
related to something like 40% of the world's cattle. That's way, way
more than natural selection, and (given the difficulty and expense of
isolating specific genes for size, industrial-living-ness, etc.) more
expansive than raw gene manipulation will be for some time.
Luis
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