Back in February Wall Street got wind of Apple's decision to cut off purchases from Synaptics.

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Amy Chua created quite a stir this weekend when people caught wind of her wildly controversial essay in the Wall Street Journal on how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids.

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"A researcher I was speaking to recently reckons green walls in urban canyon environments (areas where walls are higher than the width of the road separating them) are more effective than trees at collecting particles because the way the wind eddies around and then moves down the wall, " Laurence said.

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Levin says Wall Street is also wary of fiber-optic networks because they may wind up facing competition from emerging wireless technologies such as WIMAX, a wireless technology that promises to deliver broadband over great distances.

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Adding to the hawkish sentiment, an article by Fed mouthpiece Jon Hilsenrath in the Wall Street Journal indicated Fed officials have already mapped out a strategy to wind-down QE, and that only timing is left as a point of contention.

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