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...alluding to 10 years ago, when I failed to buy in the last decade's most famous October buying opportunity. My toughest critic/guardian angel unflinchingly said, "Stand there with a bushel basket as stocks come in." What stocks? I wanted names. Too late. She was engrossed in a dot-to-dot with our three-year- old. "I'll leave something to you," she said, and the crystal ball went dark. I would only have a few minutes to buy. At 3:30 the market rammed the 550-point barrier that triggers an hour shutdown. But the exchange closes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT GROUND ZERO | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Moving on to lighter subjects, The Mollusk continues to build mini-stories around a whale and eel. Resembling The Beatles' "Octopus' Garden" a little too closely, "Polka Dot Tail" couples the eternal question "Have you ever seen a whale/With a polka dot tail" with "Have you ever tried to shrink/Like an ice cube in the sink." Apparently these are pertinent questions to the waterlogged minds of Ween's 11 band members. Exploring nothing musically or lyrically novel, "The Golden Eel" trudges through an unrevealing revelation: "Watching the eel/Help me find the way home...Daylight has come/I can not repeal/The words...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Underwater Rhythms: A Mission Impossible | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...well up and looked away. When he looked back, he forced another grin. Lazutkin extended him the pilot's courtesy of pretending he didn't notice the tears. Moments later, the hatch was sealed, and Foale went to the window and watched as the Soyuz shrank to a distant dot and then vanished into the atmosphere. Within the hour, the Russians were on the ground, and Foale, more than 200 miles above them, returned quietly to his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BAD DAY IN SPACE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...neat, uncrowded, attractive, and easy to read. Accuracy in use of language, information, and spelling is key. Word processing on a computer is the most efficient way to produce your resume as you can try out different formats easily. It is not advisable to print your resume on a dot matrix printer. Laser jet and other types of letter quality printers are available in a variety of places around the University. Check and double check to make sure that there are absolutely no errors...

Author: By Bill Wright-swadel, | Title: RESUME | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...modest childlike wish--that he could sell enough candy and wrapping paper for his school's fund-raising drive to earn the grand prize of a pair of walkie-talkies. He set out to achieve his goal by knocking on the doors of the comfortable middle-class houses that dot the untroubled streets of his neighborhood. And he set out by himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINDING TRAUMA NEXT DOOR | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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