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...smartly dressed middle-aged man, looking a bit like a banker, charges past rows of salad dressing and diapers in the suburban Virginia Safeway, a plastic grocery basket swinging at his side. He scans the produce section until he finds what he has come for: turnips. He examines them one by one. "Too big means the root is too tough inside, too small you've got nothing left once it's peeled," the man explains as he fills up a plastic bag and twists it closed...
...Watching practice is all well and good, of course, but actual tickets were the hottest thing going: Kansas fans Tim Ballew, 30, and wife Heidi, 27, spent $3,000 for two seats on the floor four rows behind one basket. They were there to root for the Jayhawks and celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. Not everyone was lucky enough to line up tickets ahead of time: Saturday morning, folks stood in the pouring rain buying and selling and trying to look inconspicuous. Some fans ate worms and literally got in bed with snakes and rats to win tickets from...
Andrew Carnegie was another poster boy for nondiversification. He advised putting all your eggs in one basket--"then watch that basket." Carnegie's eggs were made of steel. Fast-forward to today, when average workers have become rich at Microsoft and Dell by loading up on their employers' stock (thus the Dellionaires). Bill Gates' portfolio is still overwhelmingly Microsoft. Bad planning, Bill. And how about the folks who retire from Wal-Mart and can shop at Tiffany because they bought Sam Walton's stock on the cheap? One stock. One company...
...result of behind-the-scenes chicanery than mere onscreen magic. Unfortunately, many of the more excellent films do not have the resources to compete for Academy votes on the same level as Hollywood’s studio behemoths, who often simply decide to put all their eggs in one basket. The Coen Brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There, for example, may have been more heavily marketed in other years, but its distributor, USA Pictures, has instead decided to throw all of its support behind the more critic-friendly Gosford Park. As a result, only Roger...
...next Harvard basket came from co-captain Laura Barnard, who hit her last career three-pointer. Seniors Lindsay Ryba, Sharon Nunamaker and Barnard were all players whose promising careers were plagued by injuries, but earned the right to play in an NCAA tournament before their careers were finished...