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...says, "where I don't have to log onto the Internet six times a day to see my returns." De Jonge isn't the only one looking for the exit. London's FTSE 100 touched a five-year low last week, and so far in 2002 the blue-chip European companies that make up the Dow Jones Stoxx 50 index have declined 24%. That bonfire of capital has been fueled only in part by the revelations of corporate sleaze on the other side of the Atlantic. "Even if Europe hasn't had a scandal like Enron or WorldCom," says Sorbonne...
...road through whose eyes we view the scene. In George Shaw's pictures the viewer is always on the outside looking in. Using Humbrol enamel paints (designed for plastic airplane kits), Shaw, 36, depicts the 1960s housing estate in Coventry where he grew up: its fish-and-chip shops and social clubs, its surrounding wet woods and backways. People and cars are missing, the light is fading and summer never comes. In Scenes from the Passion: The Fall a line of derelict garages bisects the picture, beneath a band of brooding trees and a lemon sky, and its image...
HONEYMOON You've bought the plane tickets to Hawaii but don't have much moola left. At such websites as TheBigDay.com Honeymoonerstravel.com and HoneyLuna.com friends can chip in for frills like a night at a volcano, horseback rides or parasailing sessions...
...didn't have a steed good enough to enter this year's Run for the Roses. Neither did Russell Reineman, a Chicago businessman and stable owner who had been trying to unload a Derby hopeless called War Emblem--a 3-year-old with a small chip in each ankle and a big chip on his shoulder. "He's a mean-spirited horse," notes Baffert...
...that, of course, is all that software amounts to: instructions that tell the hardware what to do. But given the growing complexity of our computing needs, for tasks like designing a way to fit more transistors onto a chip, even groups of genius programmers may not be up to the undertaking anymore...