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...propensity to challenge convention is one of the things that differentiates a hedgie, and it's something that humans are not necessarily wired to do, says Jim Leitner, manager of the Falcon Family Fund. Leitner spoke of this phenomenon at the conference and in Inside the House of Money, Steven Drobny's collection of interviews with macro hedgies. "Humans in general are biased to look for confirmatory evidence," Leitner asserts in the book. "When someone is bullish on oil, they tend to pick out the pro-oil arguments in whatever they read. Very few people train themselves to look...
...books of the summer is a zestfully nostalgic celebration of boyhood past. The Dangerous Book for Boys, by brothers Hal and Conn Iggulden, flits from fossils to tree houses, from secret codes to go-carts, from the Battle of Gettysburg to the last voyage of Robert Falcon Scott. A sensation last year in Britain, the book has been at or near the top of the New York Times best-seller list since late spring...
...training centers worldwide, four of which are devoted exclusively to business-jet training. One such facility, the SimuFlite North East Training Center, opened last week in Whippany, N.J., and has six flight simulators for training on models from the Gulfstream 4 to the Rolls Royce of corporate jets, the Falcon 7X. Due to high demand, CAE plans to add six more simulators to that center, and will open its 25th training facility next year in Bangalore, India...
...laptops couldn't be more portable. And wonder can get funding in a hurry when its owner is Paul Allen. His R&D team, part of his Vulcan research group, started project Sybok, named for Spock's half brother. After a series of prototypes--with names like Dolphin, Eagle, Falcon and Gecko--the team members nailed a version in 2004 that met their goal of shrinking a laptop to one-eighth its size. But it was too hot for laps, so it was scrapped. A faster, slicker processor has since cooled things down. Today, however, the heat is external...
...name is Walt Howell. And I am a BAWLS-aholic.I will drink a BAWLS in the morning, then I will drink a BAWLS at brunch, and then I will chug ten more BAWLS for a light pre-lunch snack. By 11:30 a. m. every day, the falcon flies at midnight. California! For if I could describe my life essence, that which completes me, sustains me, fulfills me to the fullest, in one word, that word would be BAWLS.Check that, I’m going to use two: BAWLS-nasty. You think I can?...