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...audience is being further fragmented by the boom in news outlets catering to special interests. For Washington policy wonks, there's C-SPAN. For Clinton bashers, there's Rush Limbaugh. For teens fixated on Beavis and Butt-head, there's MTV's Week in Rock. The Internet has become the ultimate narrowcasting vehicle: everyone from UFO buffs to New York Yankee fans has a Website (or dozen) to call his own--a dot-com in every...
...sets the guidelines for town policies, the planned community does not have the impositional overtones often associated with the "family values" agenda; there are no screenings for residents and no preferences in housing sales. In theory, Celebration is an attempt to facilitate the type of progress which the baby boom created without involving the sacrifices to the American family that have characterized the past three-and-a-half decades...
Amid the last decade's early music boom, Mr. Wispelwey emerged as one of Europe's first general specialists, performing on both modern and historical instruments. Purists delight in the integrity of hearing a Scarlatti sonata on harpsichord or a Telemann fantasy with an oboe d'amore, as opposed to the anachronistic performance on modern piano and clarinet. Fans extoll the virtues of hearing the compositions of such Baroque uber-studs as they would have been heard once upon a time. For this, the unaccustomed ear might have been a little challenged upon hearing the more delicate and subdued tonal...
...year's returns are above par, HMC's past performance has been mixed. From 1974, when HMC was started as a wholly-owned Harvard subsidiary, to 1986, HMC turned a $1.1 billion endowment into $4.6 billion--not too shabby. HMC avoided the 1987 stock market crash, but missed the boom which followed it as well. Over the period from June 1985 to June 1995, Harvard's annual return was only 13 percent. The Wall Street Journal has commented, "Any schmo could easily have beaten that simply plunking cash down into a lowcost mutual fund that mimics the behavior of Standard...
Then more life news: the discovery in a Martian meteorite of organic molecules that might be the residue of some extinct life form. Not terribly solid evidence, but suggestive enough--and brilliantly hyped by a beleaguered NASA--to start a mini-boom for Mars exploration...