Scaling the Wall

If you like symbolism - and isn't that what separates us from the chimps, after all? - then you may want to brave the New York City subway system (always a relaxing summer excursion) for a ride to the Nasdaq Stock Market's offices in lower Manhattan. New York is a city blessed with more than its share of American cultural icons, and tracking their evolution might make for interesting anthropological study of evolving economic and social trends. Where once cigarette smoke billowed ever so tantalizingly