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...should look for low expenses, experienced management and a good track record. Calvert Social Investment Equity, a large-cap growth-plus-value fund that screens companies in seven areas, has fared better than the vast majority of large-cap blended funds over the past five years (although it has fallen behind the pack recently). Ariel Fund, a small-cap value fund, isn't nearly so stringent about screening but does exclude companies that focus on making or selling tobacco, generating nuclear energy or manufacturing handguns. The ultracheap Vanguard Calvert Social Index makes a decent core holding, Parnassus Equity Income looks...
...with really scary teeth, rides out to tell Aragorn that Frodo has been killed. Jackson (who can be glimpsed playing a pirate) also solves the riddle of the "wizard kebab"--a photo, snapped on the set, of a white-robed man impaled on a huge spike. It's Saruman, fallen to his death...
...dire economic blow. In 2002, for example, quotas on some items, including gloves and negligees, were lifted by the U.S. By 2003, Chinese exports of those goods had leaped nearly 200% from their 2001 levels, while Sri Lanka's exports had dropped more than 50% and Bangladesh's had fallen 46%. If history repeats, millions of people could be thrown out of work in some of the world's poorest and most politically volatile countries--and in the richest nations as well. On Oct. 12 a coalition of U.S. textile manufacturers and labor groups, claiming that thousands of U.S. jobs...
...state may be seeing the fruits of those policies. In the past 12 months, unemployment in California has fallen from 6.7% to 5.7%. In the first half of this year, personal income increased 5.6% (compared with 5.1% for the nation as a whole), and taxable sales were up 6.1%. California's exports increased 20% in the first three quarters of 2004, after falling 26% in the preceding three years...
...Gubernator Arnold still wins the popular vote, but can his one-man show raise California's fallen star...