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...market waves originally described by Wall Street Journal co-founder Charles Dow at the turn of the 20th century and refined and popularized in the subsequent decades by Journal editor William Peter Hamilton. Prechter studied Dow theory but soon moved on to the mostly forgotten work of Ralph Nelson Elliott, an accountant who, while bedridden in the 1930s, charted stock-price movements and found intricate patterns based on the Fibonacci number sequence (in which, after 0 and 1, each number is the sum of the previous two: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.). The Fibonacci series, like pi, appears...
Prechter republished Elliott's books and in 1979 went into the forecasting business for himself at what he dubbed the Elliott Wave Institute. In 1981 he moved his operation to Gainesville, Ga., an hour north of Atlanta, and he's been there ever since. His accurate forecasts of a stock-market boom in the 1980s and a crash in the autumn of 1987 made him, for a time, one of the most influential Wall Street gurus. After the market started its 1990s bull run, though, Prechter seemed to lose his touch. In 1995 his book At the Crest...
...Exxon Valdez disaster and the birth of The Simpsons, to name a few. To commemorate the historic nature of that year, we're publishing TIME 1989: The Year That Defined Today's World. The foundation of the book was a special issue of TIME International, edited by Michael Elliott. The book is filled with superb essays and iconic pictures that trace how that pivotal year is still shaping our world today...
None tougher than finding a second act. The New Zealand family of diaper-clad tot Cory Elliott - whose bobbing to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" has garnered 4.3 million views since January - acted fast by grabbing the domain SingleBabies.com and lining up a greeting-card site as a sponsor. But Cory's dad Chester says he has hopes to branch out beyond Beyoncé. "I'm sure with the moves I've seen [Cory] pull, we'll get something pretty good," Elliott says. "He just always does them when I don't have a camera...
Silver-spoon voluntourism has its critics, of course. Christopher Elliott, a syndicated travel columnist and blogger in Orlando, Fla., thinks these efforts are aimed at wealthy guests "who want to soothe their guilty conscience by doing something that's billed as 'giving back...