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...fund industry is praying that the online trading boom and focus on just a few stocks (America Online, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Cisco) is a short-term phenomenon, the sign of a cyclical market that has got out of hand, rather than a fundamental, long-term shift. "It's based on a false sense of empowerment," claims funds watcher Avi Nachmany of Strategic Insight. Once the narrow bull market calms down, or broadens to include harder-to-choose value and small-cap stocks (as it appears to have done of late), Nachmany and others argue, investors will rush back...
...taking an extended leave of absence. It's not clear that he's headed for a Net newcomer, but that's exactly what others before him have done. Last summer Peter Neupert, one of Microsoft's biggest new media advocates, left to run Drugstore.com, a site now backed by Amazon. MORE...
...Homegrocer.com was founded only last year, and is funded with money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the same venture capital firm that helped launch big Internet brands such as Amazon, Excite and At Home. Last month former Netscape chief executive James Barksdale invested some $5 million in the privately held online grocery company. MORE...
Darger's 19,000 pages would be a tempting companion to Girls on the Run, but neither HOLLIS nor Amazon seems to have heard of it, and his delicious piece on Ashbery's cover is credited to a gallery in Lausanne. Still, on its own pre-pubescent feet Girls on the Run is a wonder, combining dead-pan modernist language with the poignancy of a concrete burn on a Sunday afternoon. Reading the entire 55-page poem through is akin to sitting through a ten hour film, and Girls on the Run features an additional hypnotism in the person...
...HAVE A DREAM A change of mind-set may be all that stands between humanity and a healthy environment, according to the Dream Change Coalition www.dreamchange.org) The site invites visitors to join trips (real, not virtual) into the Amazon and the Himalayas to learn about eco-concepts known as dream changing and psychonavigation. "Earth-honoring changes in consciousness," says the coalition, are what's needed to put the planet on a path toward environmental and social balance...