The rub is being felt particularly hard in Greenwich, a redoubt of Wall Street wealth on the edge of New York City's suburbs, where trees are intertwined with the town's old money legacy.

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There was a fun pitch under a huge roof where I had to climb into a corner, then lower myself down the rope and run back and forth on the wall until I could catch the edge of the next crack system.

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You may decide, well, the only thing I can do is to work on Wall Street or work in a big corporation that's not doing cutting-edge research.

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Wall Street was also anxious after former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the American economy is on the edge of recession.

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Experts are divided over the origin of the jelly which has been found on grass banks away from the water's edge at the RSPB's Ham Wall base.

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