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...with the stocks of small companies. They typically do not pay a dividend--the payoff is in price appreciation. That makes them more desirable when the cap-gains rate falls because dividends get taxed as ordinary income--a higher rate for most investors. Yet big stocks have been rising fastest all year, and that could persist. Why? Big stocks, as defined by the S&P 500, now have a measly 1.6% dividend yield, vs. 6% in the early '80s. In short, they're also being managed for growth instead of income. Of course, the market reacts to many things...
...infected with the disease, but not all of them are aware of it. Millions more may go to their death never knowing their lives were shattered by Lyme disease, misdiagnosed as one of the illnesses that Lyme mimics and camouflages itself as. Lyme disease ranks as one of the fastest-growing infectious diseases in the U.S. DOUGLAS SUTHERLAND DODGE Guilford, Conn...
...Mormon Church is by far the most numerically successful creed born on American soil and one of the fastest growing anywhere. Its U.S. membership of 4.8 million is the seventh largest in the country, while its hefty 4.7% annual American growth rate is nearly doubled abroad, where there are already 4.9 million adherents. Gordon B. Hinckley, the church's President--and its current Prophet--is engaged in massive foreign construction, spending billions to erect 350 church-size meetinghouses a year and adding 15 cathedral-size temples to the existing 50. University of Washington sociologist Rodney Stark projects that in about...
...along the Gunnison, Slate and East rivers, FOR SALE signs are almost as common as cottonwoods. Countywide, 13,000 acres of ranchland have been sold for development in the past two years; of the 75,000 prime acres that remain, 17,500 are for sale. Development's pace is fastest at the northern head of the valley, where the funky ski town of Crested Butte is a money magnet. Opulent homes necklace its ridges, and a million visitors pass through each year. Though still rural, the county has a choice: either it finds a way to shape the sprawl, channeling...
...some respects Redux has been a victim of its own early success. The first new antiobesity medication in more than 20 years, the drug enjoyed one of the fastest launches in pharmaceutical history. Both the FDA and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, which markets Redux, knew about the possibility of brain damage at high doses. But they also knew people who are morbidly obese--individuals who weigh 30% more than average--face even greater risks that they will die young from heart disease, diabetes or stroke. "We made the decision that the benefits outweigh the risks, at least for the population...