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Will the bug industry succeed? Last month the American Stock Exchange let investors hedge their hunches. It began trading futures options based on the 18-stock De Jager Year 2000 Index, made up of companies such as giant Dun & Bradstreet and smaller outfits like Data Dimensions and Viasoft that are racing to devise solutions. The options represent bundles of stocks in the index, named after the computer consulting firm De Jager & Co., which took a lead in addressing the 2000 issue. If these companies can't find a solution before the millennium, a new breed of speculators--call them bugbears...
...most important breakthrough in biblical research since the 1947 discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Or is it merely a scholar's overhyped thesis, unsupported by solid evidence? These questions swirl about three tiny fragments of papyrus at Oxford University known collectively as the Magdalen Papyrus. Ragged-edged and dun-colored, they contain snippets of three passages from Chapter 26 of St. Matthew's Gospel in Greek script. For more than 90 years, the papyrus scraps had been housed at the library of Magdalen College, the gift of an obscure British chaplain who bought them at an antiquities market...
Though they don't lack for cash to pay bills, the royals continue to dun the nation for upkeep on some of their drawing rooms and castles, not to mention the royal train and yacht. All told, the House of Windsor was a $69 million drain on the British treasury last year. Priced at the equivalent of a major theme park, the Disney-Windsor deal could be worth several billion to the government, which also would get a royalty on the royal revenues. The Windsors would be doing something to earn their keep, besides opening Parliament and holding egg rolls...
...Dun & Bradstreet, the multibillion-dollar business-information giant, said it would split itself into three companies. Unlike AT&T's reorganization, the move will not be coupled with huge job cuts: less than 2% of Dun & Bradstreet's 50,000 employees will...
...racist issue was blown out of proportion so that you could no longer see the truth," said Kate A. Dun '99. "There's no way he's not guilty...