Executives interviewed for the report indicated that the social media risk is rising, and they worry about cyber attacks, breaches of confidentiality, fast-spreading malicious rumors about the company, as well as financial disclosures.

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In another sign of the evolving times, a neighborhood Burger King that medics once converted to a makeshift trauma center following the attacks, now houses a younger fast-food staff mostly unfamiliar with the restaurant's storied past.

CNN: Americans take to the streets amid news of bin Laden's death

The EU has already decided to freeze the accounts of those suspected of links with Osama Bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect for the attacks, and it has moved fast to close legal loopholes by agreeing on a common definition of terrorism.

BBC: EU targets terror groups

As the markets began to recover, the fast rebound in commodities was just what Haugerud's inverse-stagflation theory told her should happen: Attacks or no, people continued to eat food and wear gold.

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