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...already suffering from inflation jitters. Ironically, Monday's plunge was not triggered by stunning earnings reports or major economic news. The question now for investors is whether this recent slide is merely a temporary correction to the 5 1/2-year bull market or a signal of the coming of a bear market. -- Josh Dubow
...million on sales of $1.65 billion. But the company carries little debt and can borrow money more cheaply than most competitors, a considerable advantage because in Bollenbach, 54, Hilton has one of dealmaking's master players. Indeed, there's barely a major hotel company that doesn't bear his imprint. "He is the best in the hotel business," says Bjorn Hanson, head of hotel-industry practice at Coopers & Lybrand, an accounting and consulting firm. "He has demonstrated that in what he has done with Disney, Marriott and Trump. He's done something different from what anyone expected. It's just...
...Mars (Bantam). The third volume in his acclaimed Mars trilogy, it's a painstakingly plotted epic that follows a group of pioneers across centuries as they transform the Red Planet into an ecologically friendly refuge. "We're acting as the conscience and subconscious of the scientific world," says Greg Bear, author of 16 novels, most of them hard sci-fi. "We dream what scientists would like to achieve...
...chaotic until I realized that, in Harvard Square, the drivers (grudgingly) stop when you run across the street; on Third Avenue, where I walk to work each morning, it's a game of chicken at every corner, as crowds of business executives edge out into traffic and frenzied cabbies bear down on them, determined not to miss the light. Coming from a place where 30-minute, five-mile drives are common-place, I'm continually surprised to see how people will fight tooth and nail over a few inches of street, or run like maniacs to make...
...TIME, the 10-year-old offered an uncensored glimpse inside Karolyi's gym: "He gets real mad. On occasion, he kicks kids out of the gym. But the worst is when he says nothing, and you don't know what's the matter." What about those famous Bela bear hugs? "He's much nicer here...