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...girls wearing baseball caps and baggy shirts mope around in a makeshift prison just outside the walls of Tehran's Azadi Stadium. From behind the flimsy cage, the girls can hear cheers erupt as Iran and Bahrain battle it out for a place in the World Cup. Under arrest for trying to sneak into the football match disguised as boys, the girls await their punishment - but being so tantalizingly close to the game is torture enough. One of the captives debates with a reluctant guard about the logic of Iran's law banning women from stadiums. "There are lots...
...Unlike heroin, caffeine is best used when ingested in small doses throughout the night. According to a study co-authored by Charles A. Czeisler, a professor of sleep medicine at the Medical School, frequent, small amounts of caffeine can help maintain cognitive abilities for extended periods. On average, a cup of brewed coffee from the dining hall contains about 100 milligrams (mg) of caffeine, as opposed to an 8.2 ounce can of Red Bull which has about 80 mg. Interestingly, Diet Coke outweighs regular Coke by a score of 46 mg to 34, so those looking to stay slim should...
They studied the three-month period leading up to either a World Cup or a European championship title match, dating back to 1992. Their portfolio of 11 stocks beat the market six out of seven times--by as many as 19 percentage points and as few as 7 percentage points. Only once did the portfolio produce a loss, falling 1.8% while the benchmark Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) world index eked out a 1% gain. On average, the UBS portfolio rose 9% in the three-month periods while the MSCI index fell 1%. That's a whupping...
...players on this stocker-team juggernaut? Nintendo, whose soccer games sell well as "youngsters get excited" by the Cup; Holcim, a Swiss building-materials company, because the Cup "always involves major infrastructure" additions; Heineken, the Dutch brewer, and Scottish & New Castle, a British pub operator (try to guess why); Canon, the Japanese imaging company, because "worldwide media attention" means fans will want to record the event; Fuji Photo, a Japanese film company (see Canon); Coca-Cola, one of the main sponsors; Tesco, a British takeaway-food retailer; InterContinental Hotels; Puma, the German sports-shoe company, because of "higher-than-average...
...strength only in the three-month periods. The idea, then, was to let the market identify stocks that benefited from Europe's soccer mania--without requiring an abundance of fundamental logic. "We recommend investing in these stocks immediately and closing the investment on the final day of the World Cup," the UBS guys write. And how. Certainly, Coke and Fuji have been dogs for years even if others, like Heineken, have been steady winners. If you're going to play this game, you might as well follow the rules. They will help you score as they have with other pattern...