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...have experienced a merger, you need to take a close look at what's being done with your money. In some cases, merging is a way for fund companies to make poor-performing funds disappear. It creates what Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, a critic of the practice, calls "survivorship bias": lousy funds are killed so that a fund company's average rate of return rises. Survivorship bias may not have been the goal but was certainly the result in July when Columbia Management Group's Galaxy II Utility fund, with a three-year return of 3.7%, was merged into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Mutual-Fund Disappearing Act | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...victims whom we remember today to remind the media about the persistence of anti-transgender violence. Brandon from Boys Don’t Cry isn’t the only one we’ve lost, and anti-transgender violence didn’t disappear once Hilary Swank won her Academy Award...

Author: By Marcel A.Q. Laflamme, | Title: Remember the Transgendered | 11/20/2002 | See Source »

...Democrats, a hidden benefit of last week's defeat may be that it has forced them to take their adversary seriously. After Sept. 11, many liberals believed Bush's popularity would eventually disappear as the memory of the attacks faded, the way his father's did after the glow of the Gulf War. But the election demonstrated that this war remains immediate to many Americans, and that they still view this President as a reliable guardian of the country's resolve. "Democrats have to come to terms with just how popular the President is," says a senior Democratic aide. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2002: The Battle Hymn Of......The Republicans | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...like those used in digital cameras monitors the reflection of an infrared light projected on the same spot. It can tell which "keys" you are trying to strike by the way that reflection changes. Someday, similar keyboards may be built into the gadgets they work with, so that they disappear when not in use. INVENTORS Canesta and VKB AVAILABILITY 2003 TO LEARN MORE vkb.co.il and www.canesta.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Digital | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...Dominguez says the opposition to the Core will never completely disappear...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reinventing Harvard’s Core Curriculum | 11/6/2002 | See Source »

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