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...OneSeason doesn't take long to learn how to play. A trader can deposit up to $2,500 into an account over a 12-month period, and then electronically buy and sell "synthetic ownership interests," a convoluted name for fake shares, of current baseball, basketball, football, and hockey players. Like any self-respecting stock site, the home page details the day's biggest winners and losers, as well as which traders are red-hot. You can easily access data on each athlete: performance charts, shares outstanding (which start anywhere from 50-250 depending on demand, and can change when...
...atrocities of the 40-year Guatemalan genocide and the human rights report of the Guatemalan Catholic Archdiocese that exposed the massacres. It is his first work to be translated into English, and it utilizes material from the real report. The novel is a stream-of-consciousness first-person account of an anonymous writer in an unnamed Latin American country, commissioned to edit 1,100 pages of testimonies from survivors of massacres of Indian villages.“Senselessness” begins with the words spoken by one survivor: “I am not complete in the mind...
...downturn with a few more bullets in their pocket than they had in the past," he says. The high growth rates of the past several years provide an additional buffer. With the exception of slow-growing Japan, which may already be in a recession, Asian countries will likely account for the majority of the world's GDP growth this year...
...Stood Up to Bradman (Allen & Unwin; 302 pages) hints that the book is as much about Bradman as Fingleton, a gritty opening batsman who played 18 Tests for Australia in the 1930s and later penned several of cricket's most acclaimed books, including Brightly Fades The Don, a stylish account of Bradman's final appearances for Australia on the 1948 "Invincibles" tour of England...
Still, I concede that the average joe prefers Windows computers, which account for more than 90% of the machines on the Internet, according to the Web-monitoring firm Net Applications. (Apple's got a little less than 8%, though it has recently surged in laptop sales and now commands a little more than 10% of that market.) That's why many new gadgets I've wanted to write about (a sport watch from Garmin, for instance) and software (Google's Chrome browser) work with PCs only...