On September 7, 2005 a disturbing social movement reached critical mass in New York City's financial district.

A domestic terror group with a single-issue focus -- the "rights" of laboratory animals -- trained its sights on the New York Stock Exchange. The exchange was preparing to list the pharmaceutical laboratory firm Life Sciences Research International (LSRI, also known by its British name, Huntingdon Life Sciences) on the Big Board.

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Will Your Favorite Blue-Chip Be Next?
During a September 29, 2005 National Public Radio broadcast, Columbia Business School finance professor Charles Jones called the New York Stock Exchange's last-minute reversal "unprecedented." He also predicted that once the exchange took its first step down the road of terror-appeasement, "it's going to be very hard to decide where to stop on that path."
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