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This is no small matter. Over time, lagging stock funds take a huge bite out of what you might have earned. During the past 10 years, the average stock fund rose 260%, vs. 314% for the S&P 500. If you had invested $10,000 in the average fund, it would have become $36,000; in the S&P 500, $41,400--15% more...
...like Beavis and Butt-head, in which the principals are intentionally distanced from their own programs. The ideal would be to remove oneself from experience while engaging in experience and to make experience deliberately fleeting. The structure of the sitcom Seinfeld continued to depend on dozens of fast-moving, bite-size scenes that simulate the effect of surfing while remaining within a single coherent situation, thus pre-empting the viewer's urge to switch channels. Attention spans remained brief. Control remained remote...
...plumb recent TV history to find a funnier piece of sketch comedy than PI's Republican Party infomercial spoof, which aired the week of the San Diego convention. As the networks lulled us to sleep, Bill Maher's wry, combative round-table show succeeded in covering the campaign with bite...
...Ferreira. "He has that sixth sense of knowing where everybody is, that great anticipation." Last year Kariya scored 50 goals, assisted on 58 others and won the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship. He is a student of juggling. Says Kariya: "I can do the [trick] where you take the bite out of the apple as it comes by." He has already taken a pretty big bite out of hockey...
...afterlife are rare, and notions of God are often vague. The ecospiritualists may pay homage to Gaia or indulge in tribal drumming rituals, but for many, Gaia is simply a metaphor, and drumming a way to unwind. Even ancient religions, as rendered by their excavators, lose some theological bite. The Asatru Webmaster admits his beloved Thor is just a symbol...