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...search for the real killers, it becomes tempting to think about what might have been. If only, for instance, the Bush Administration had adopted its posture on global warming when considering the evidence justifying the invasion of Iraq - and vice versa. Instead of fighting a lonely battle amid hostility and near anarchy in Iraq, the U.S. might have let inspections and containment continue to hobble Saddam forever, while we mustered a real coalition to confront North Korea, which is all but televising its efforts to build nuclear bombs. Instead of dismissing the overwhelming evidence that climate is changing, and alienating...
Kilton bought the dress at Pish Posh, a children's boutique in Omaha. Pish Posh owner Angie Bekins opened the store in April of this year after contemplating the idea for 13 years. That she finally did so amid a war and a recession seems to have had few ill effects. Bekins says the store's sales in its first month were "phenomenal," and they have only improved, with June being her "best month ever." T shirts retailing for $20 and dresses for $100 are being snapped up faster than Bekins can reorder them. She says one customer purchased...
...health-care hedge fund. "What we don't want is the risk that their product doesn't work." The uncertainty of drug research - it can take 12 years to bring a new medicine to market - is what drives the industry's volatility. Biotech stocks soared in 1990-91 amid a flood of early-stage drug hype and ipos. The vast majority of the drugs and companies soon failed, and the stocks crashed. Another bubble surfaced in 1999-2000, largely driven by excitement over the mapping of the human genome. In the 18 months before March 2000, the American Stock Exchange...
Biotech stocks soared in 1990-91 amid a flood of early-stage drug hype and IPOs. The vast majority of the drugs and companies soon failed, and the stocks crashed. Another bubble surfaced in 1999-2000. While everyone was focused on the run-up in Internet stocks, biotech shares rose twice as fast, largely driven by excitement over the mapping of the human genome. In the 18 months before March 2000, the American Stock Exchange's biotech index rose 563% while the NASDAQ rose 238%. Both plunged in the next two years...
...9/11, the attack is an act of blind, vengeful rage that claims thousands of innocent lives. But the perpetrators aren't foreign religious extremists?they're disaffected local teens delivering the knockout scene in this year's most anticipated Japanese movie. Battle Royale II opens in Japan this month amid a deafening buzz of hype and expectation, and with one question looming over the rest: will the sequel generate as much outrage and controversy as its predecessor? "I hope so," says the film's director, Kenta Fukasaku. "The more strongly people react, the better...