Word: almanacs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...performance falls on little ears as well as big. With such incentives, grade-schoolers leap naturally from this-little-piggie-went-to-market to this-little-kiddie-plays-the-market. "This has become a national pastime," says Yale Hirsch, a stock-market historian and publisher of Stock Trader's Almanac. "What's the difference between this and baseball...
...addictively mean Fametracker www.fametracker.com)--"The Farmer's Almanac of Celebrity Worth"--is dedicated to exposing the overexposed and meting out punishment for hubris. Its signature feature, the "Fame Audit," dissects superstars' careers and publicity binges with surgical detail. On Ben Affleck: "[He] has had a Counting Crows kind of career--too much, too fast, too soon. This isn't his fault, but it is his problem." Each audit tots the star's assets and liabilities (Affleck's: "Easygoing, cocksure charm"/"Consistently refers to his acting as 'the work'") and judges the celeb's "actual" and "deserved" level of fame...
...June low and the highest point reached in July, August or September. By that measure there is a rally not just every summer, but every season. And get this: seasonally speaking, the summer rally is the least exciting. Yale Hirsch, editor of the Stock Trader's Almanac, studied seasonal Dow moves back to 1964 and found that, on average, the summer rally was good for a 9.7% gain. But the autumn rally--August or September low to the high reached in October, November or December--averaged 10.4%. The winter rally averaged 14%; the spring rally...
...young forester in the U.S. Southwest, Aldo Leopold shot a wolf. Reaching the mortally wounded animal, he recalled in his influential A Sand County Almanac, he watched "a fierce green fire dying in her eyes" and had a change of heart. Discarding the forest-exploitation ideas of his day, he advocated total protection of certain wilderness areas, including predators. Almanac, published posthumously, broadened this notion into what he called "the land ethic," which said in effect that anything harming an ecosystem is "ethically and aesthetically" wrong...
...first I heard that daylight saving was started by the barbecue lobby, trying to claim an extra hour of grilling time. But most people said it was the farmers. Being Jewish, I don't know any farmers, so I called Susan Peery, managing editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac. She told me that farmers actually protested daylight saving because it messed with nature and interrupted their milking schedule. So now I like farmers. I'm trying to do some coalition building here...