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Pulled down raw out of the ether, the new Buddhist vibe can seem surrealistically jumbled, as a poem in a recent New Yorker acknowledged: "The huge head of Richard Gere, a tsonga blossom/ in his hair, comes floating like a Macy's/ Parade balloon above the snowcapped summit/ of sacred Kailas." But in fact intrigued Americans need not remain perplexed: they can investigate a vibrant, if small, U.S. community of believers. This does not mean the hundreds of thousands of Buddhist immigrants, who have yet to have an impact on mainstream culture. Rather, it refers to some 100,000 American...
...consumer subscribers for the hookups of America Online. That gave WorldCom, which has made some 50 acquisitions in little more than a decade, a broader range of telecom assets--from local and long-distance lines to high-speed Internet-access networks--than even mighty AT&T. Adding MCI would balloon WorldCom's revenues from $4.5 billion in 1996 to nearly $28 billion and make the company, based in Jackson, Miss., by far the leading challenger to the $52.7 billion colossus once known as Ma Bell. "With all of his transactions," says Berge Ayvazian, executive vice president of the Yankee Group...
Apple czar Steve Jobs floats a tantalizing balloon for the Mac faithful (TIME Daily...
...lesson is that as an investor, you're still on your own. Wit and E*TRADE will balloon your net worth faster than the average high-growth mutual fund only if you do your homework and deduce which deals are worth betting on. "We're only going to be as good as our reputation," Klein says calmly. "We do the due diligence, we investigate the company, we determine what we think is a fair price." Klein thinks that's a winner, but then it's easy to be sanguine when you've got wheat beer to fall back...
ANGIOPLASTY AMELIORATED Treating balloon-angioplasty patients with a powerful antioxidant drug called probucol can significantly reduce their chances of needing to have the procedure repeated...