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Chalk up another victim of dot-com mania: wanna-be doctors. For the second straight year, applications to U.S. medical schools are down, a 4.7 percent drop from 1997 to 1998. That makes a 12 percent decline in since 1996, when applications were at an all-time high. The diagnosis? A strong economy gives bright students a wider range of options and less of a perceived need to seek out a "safe" profession (medical schools experienced similar fluctuations in the late '70s and early '80s during flush economic periods). Add to that the fact that some doctors report less-than...
...measured by TheStreet.com Internet index. Second, Net investors who have been at the game longer than six months may still have sizable profits. The carnage has been largely confined to pure Internet stocks--such retailers as Amazon.com and eBay; communities like iVillage.com and TheGlobe.com media companies Marketwatch.com and TheStreet. com; and portals such as Yahoo and America Online. Many stocks that benefit from the Internet but don't depend on it to sell their goods have held up well. IBM is up 35% since Internet stocks peaked in April...
...largest fun lies in the other characters: jut-jawed Kent Mansley, the funny-dumb government agent who has bought into the whole duck-and-cover thing; Dean, the beatnik junk sculptor whose cool helps thwart Kent's heat; Hogarth's mother, an old-fashioned, benignly clueless sit-com mom. Together they create a smart live-and-let-live parable, full of glancing, acute observations on all kinds of big subjects--life, death, the military-industrial complex--that you can talk about with the kids for a long time to come...
...situation started with the de-monopolization of the Net?s name game. Network Solutions, the company that hands out those .com and .net web addresses, needed some competition, and this spring, five companies were turned loose in the void on a trial basis. So far, so good. Trouble is, Network Solutions, which is still in charge of the overall system, decided not to extend its own no-dirty-words policy to its five new peers, throwing the doors open to a Carlinized cyberspace that had the Judiciary members up in arms Wednesday. It may have been a nifty business ploy...