In essence, the market woke up on the wrong side of the bed, tripped over its gym shoes and wiped out down a flight of stairs.

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Martha's daughter, who is the only family member to keep a slender tether to AWOL mom, doesn't understand the flight response but fills in her mother's shoes perfectly, taking care of dad and even replacing mom as kindergarten teacher.

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Mr. Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, the capital of Sindh, in 2002 while researching an article on Richard Reid, who had been arrested for an attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami using explosives in his shoes.

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Pearl was researching Pakistani extremists and their possible links to Richard Reid, who was arrested in December on a flight from Paris to Miami allegedly with explosives in his shoes.

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