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NASD has also started posting arbitration awards online, armchair reading likely to delight and discourage in equal measure. Most lawyers won't even start sniffing if you've lost less than $50,000, which means your time may be better spent finding a new broker to rebalance your portfolio. The SEC urges investors to check a broker's history before opening an account. But its Central Registration Depository won't mention any complaints that were erased as part of settlement agreements, which took care of 41% of last year's arbitration claims. NASD has been dragging its feet in drafting...
...penalty." According to police, Takuma said he had taken an overdose of tranquilizers before going on the knifing spree. No one really knows what twisted logic motivated Takuma, although Takuma's father told Japanese newspapers that his son once did poorly on a test at the Ikeda school. But armchair psychologists are already diagnosing the case. "The noises children make sound good to many people, but for someone who feels victimized?and I think this suspect is probably one of them?those noises sound like children are mocking him," says Susumu Oda, a psychiatrist specializing in criminal cases at Osaka...
...journey up the Mekong into the jungled heart of Southeast Asia has had a hold on popular imagination since Martin Sheen's nightmarish voyage in Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppola's film, shot in the Philippines, probably did as much to inform armchair experience of the Vietnam War and its virgin forest battlegrounds as any travel brochure. But recreating Captain Willard's mythical journey has been impossible for decades due to civil war in Mekong and tourist restrictions in communist Laos. Until now. Although not yet officially announced, the Mekong border crossing has been reopened to foreigners, allowing river travel...
...Armchair Bravery...
...Armchair cardiologists were everywhere last week. After Dick Cheney's second unplanned trip to the hospital in four months, the tabloids were full of anonymous quotations from "worried pals" who thought Cheney should cut back on his work load. Talk-show hosts repeated their physicians' advice to take it easy. Political types made book on who would replace Cheney if he bows out before George W. Bush runs for re-election, and syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington wondered if the Vice President was on some kind of "suicide mission...