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Hottest thing to do on a Saturday night: Fly back to Chicago and hit up some clubs...
...came to a bad end. It was the BASEBALL that many blamed for costing the Chicago Cubs a trip to the World Series last fall, when a fan, Steve Bartman, deflected it from the glove of Cubs left fielder Moises Alou. In a stunt to exorcise the curse--and raise money for juvenile diabetes--the ball was blown up inside a clear case. Fans cheered, but Bartman was a no-show...
...other big catalyst for BNSF's growth: China. The railway's L.A.-to-Chicago transcontinental route is humming with mile-long BNSF trains, their railcars stacked two containers high with Chinese-made toys and togs, purses and plasma TVs. The town of Colton, Calif., east of Los Angeles, is now the busiest spot in the West for rail traffic, thanks to a tsunami of transpacific trade--$1.3 billion for BNSF alone this year--arriving at ports from San Diego to Seattle. "At the end of the day," says Rose, "all roads lead to China." Particularly railroads: BNSF's China-related...
...make impulse buys. And he doesn't always know or care what he wants, let alone what he can afford. "The bursting of the Internet bubble may have been the final nail in the coffin of the efficient-market hypothesis," says Richard Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago...
Although the leap from teaching undergraduates to MBAs may seem incongruous for a psychologist, the faculty of the University of Chicago Business School is heavily populated with people from the basic disciplines, Epley said...