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Many investors feel compelled to go along with the stampede even if they doubt the common wisdom behind it. Says Mason Sexton, president of the market-forecasting firm Harmonic Research: "I have been urging investors since September not to stand in the way of this beast. Wall Street is littered with the bodies of traders who underestimated the power of this bull market." Others see a worrisome possibility that the stock market will lose any realistic relationship with economic growth. Says De Lutis: "If the market has a substantial rise and gets way ahead of the economy, then it would...
...thirteen-year old little girl named Marguerite Poirier was attacked by a wild, wolf-like beast as she tended to her flocks in the small French village of Paulot, in the province of Guyenne. Later that month a strange boy, Jean Grenier, was brought before the local judge for the crime. The wolfish animal, it was thought by the locals, had been young Jean. For Jean, it seems, was a werewolf...
Well, okay, so he wasn't. Since Greek and Roman times, though, one of the most powerful myths in all of Western culture has been the werewolf, that half-man, half-beast symbolic of the evil that lurks within the hearts of men. But little did young Marguerite and Jean know that one day, some 383 years later, their alleged skirmish would introduce Tom Mueller's History and Literature thesis on the werewolf legend throughout history...
...seems to be treating this incident seriously and has already launched an investigation. That's good, but in the wake of this glaring lapse the onus is on UHS to demonstrate that it is not the uncaring, bureaucratic beast its student-critics claim. A timely and meaningful explanation of the events of April 13 is imperative. We deserve...
Overblown press stories and Rifkin's rhetoric about the two cases have raised the specter of re-engineered microbes escaping into the environment with dire consequences. But most scientists are convinced that neither the Biologics viral vaccine nor the A.G.S. bacteria pose any threat to man, beast or plant...