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...worried too. Membership in her club has soared. "Most people who come to my meetings sold their high-tech stocks after 2000," she says. "We had to move to a bigger room. It's either a sign of the times or a market top." What's her bet? Rockower has six houses on the market--nearly every investment property she owns...
...crap" and "NOT COUNTRY ... A SICK DISGRACE" are common threads, with even moderate dissenters saying that while they may like country and rap separately, they would prefer they stay that way. Some call on CMT to stop playing the video. "Rapboy Troy is not CMT. He's MTV and BET. Plain and simple...
...commit fraud; in San Jose, Calif. The conspiracy charge was added after the mother of a construction worker told reporters that her son, who is now cooperating with police, lost part of his finger in a work accident and gave it to Ayala's husband to settle a $50 bet. Ayala faces nearly 10 years in prison and possible liability for the $2.5 million that Wendy's claims it suffered in lost business...
Bill Gates would really like a piece of your nerve center. He's bet billions of dollars that the Xbox will get it for him, and hasn't seen one thin dime of profit yet. True, since it launched in November 2001, the Xbox has sold 20 million units, earning it a comfortable, if distant, second place to Sony's PlayStation 2 in the North American market. But the game-console business is a peculiar one: you have to spend a bundle on promotions, and you lose cash on every box you sell, hoping to make it all back...
...actually kind of a jock: he played baseball, football, golf, hockey, tennis, whatever. But it was in video games that he stood out. "When I was 12 to 15 years old, I went to arcades a lot and played Mortal Kombat 2 religiously," he says. "I used to bet against other guys who thought they were the big dogs, and I usually took home about $50 a night. For a 13-year-old, that's a lot of money...