>>The Dow Jones Industrial Average saw its biggest one-day drop in five years today, coming on the heels of today’s other big news about an attempt on Vice President Cheney’s life by a Taliban suicide in Afghanistan. The sell-off began in Asia overnight and continued across Europe, when two exchanges in Shanghai that track the Chinese stock markets both fell nearly 9 percent — that largest drop in a decade. [WaPo]
>> As if Metro didn’t have enough PR problems these days: “On Feb. 19, 16-year-old Brittany Wright was boarding a Metrobus in Foggy Bottom. She set the brakes of her wheelchair while the driver prepared to turn on the lift that would hoist Wright into the bus. ‘Like, the next thing I know I’m flipped over on the ground,’ Wright says. ‘I flipped over and hurt my back really bad, and I’m still in a lot of pain, like, a lot of pain.’ ” [City Desk]
>> A propane tanker has overturned on the ramp from I-66 to eastbound Route 29. I-66 is still open.
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