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Like a giant tidal wave refusing to crest, technology stocks soared. Investors poured money into the market without thinking twice, and the entire economy surged forward. Every idea was a new source of money, and stories of Harvard grads making millions trickled down to those of us just starting our college careers...
...given day, a steady stream of cars find their way there. On weekends, more than 1,000 visitors may show up to look at the little town that taught us that no place is beyond terrorism's reach. They come from every state in the union, climbing to the crest of Skyline Road to see what remains of the now legendary Flight 93: absolutely nothing. With the crater long ago filled in, they can only gaze out on a rolling field that protrudes like a bald spot from a grove of hemlocks. "The horror of the event and the beauty...
Budget-price speakers will expect a complimentary mug, tote bag or T shirt bearing your institution's official crest...
...country where the Prime Minister, Wim Kok, famously likes to ride a bike to work, Fortuyn's flamboyance was a political statement in itself. He traveled in a Daimler with a fender flag bearing the family crest, employed a butler named Herman, wore tailored Italian suits and oversized ties, and reveled in his homosexuality. "He was like a jester, the one who holds up a mirror to the politicians and says, 'Look, you're ugly,'" notes Arthur Ringeling, a political scientist at Rotterdam's Erasmus University. Raised in a middle-class Catholic family, Fortuyn was a nominal Marxist during...
...favors. The place to appease them is an extinct volcano called Mount Popa, at the foot of which a stone sentinel stands guard. A massive pillar of rock riddled with meditation cells and capped with pale green and gold temples, the 737-m-high Popa Daung Kalat, or Popa Crest, shelters 37 of Burma's most powerful nats...