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...afloat, and has delayed economic reforms to preserve stability. Meanwhile, life is so miserable that life expectancy for men has dropped to 58 (from 65 years in the mid-'80s) and the country's population shrank by 400,000 last year. "Russia," says Paul Goble, a Radio Free Europe analyst, "has more in common with Somalia than Poland...
Meanwhile, scores of smaller stocks are "excruciatingly undervalued," as Prudential Securities analyst Claudia Mott puts it. The Russell 2000 small-stock index is down 16% in 12 months. Yet many small stocks have growth rates that exceed their earnings multiples, and the group tends to do best when the U.S. economy is strong and foreign economies are weak, as now. And small companies are ripe for a wave of premium-priced takeovers by big companies using their stratospheric stock prices as currency. Some foreign markets also look attractive. These conditions have been in place for a while; patience...
...particularly for small businesses and home offices with no time to be anyone's beta tester. OfficeConnect looks easy enough, but it still requires users to string new cables and install circuit boards inside their computers. "Those add-in cards pretty much eliminate the casual user," says Bruce Kasrel, analyst with Forrester Research. "A lot of people who own PCs are afraid to open them." He expects to see, before long, more home-networking products make use of a computer's far more accessible Universal Serial Bus if additional hardware is needed...
...unsavvy will need help when things go wrong. A new industry group hopes to give it to them by developing ways for phone and utility companies to manage household networks externally. "The idea has potential, but I see this as a couple of years off," says Michael Wolf, an analyst with Cahners In-Stat Group. "The best course is still to sell reliable and fail-safe equipment...
Computers are not the only high-tech items in the home that could benefit from a network. Industry analyst Karuna Uppal of The Yankee Group argues that home networking will be even more appealing to householders once the technology is extended to things like TVs, DVD players and stereos, home security systems and central air conditioning. Sun Microsystems is licensing a Java-based technology called Jini that is supposed to offer a no-fuss way to make home entertainment devices and other non-PC appliances part of any home network. Microsoft is working on a competing standard called Universal Plug...