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...stalks giant economic trends, Cramer invests and makes his money mostly in U.S. stocks. Roughly half of his $315 million fund is locked down in stocks he believes will outperform the market over the next decade. The other half Cramer and partner Jeff Berkowitz trade every day, with a feverish enthusiasm fired by the glee of making the right bets and the crunching agony of picking a loser. In the course of a day's trading, the firm will be in and out of 50 stocks, betting millions on tiny ticks of the tape. Cramer, whose 22% compound annual return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEDGE FUNDS--OR, HOW THE RICH GET RICHER | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...thermometers, heating pads and blood-pressure monitors. Under an arrangement that could conceivably net the association millions of dollars a year in royalties, last week it gave Sunbeam exclusive rights to fix the A.M.A. seal on some of the firm's health-care products--and promptly set off a feverish debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOCTORS' DILEMMA | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...storm anymore. The reluctant entry of another woman into the Paula Jones case hardly created a ripple. And when speculation that New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani might be having an affair surfaced last week in Vanity Fair, followed by the tabloids, it sparked not so much a feverish rush of readers to newsstands as a snippy debate in the New York press about standards of proof. Just as it now takes an airborne President punching out terrorists for a movie to open big, it may take, as former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards so archly put it, finding a politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX, LIES AND SPECULATION | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

Dormant for years, the biotech bug is once again infesting stocks. This nasty man-made microbe, hatched in the labs of Wall Street, surfaces every few years to prey on susceptible (i.e., gullible) investors. Symptoms include feverish optimism followed by cold chills of reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEARISH ON BIOTECH | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...Olduvai Gorge, the famous Great Rift Valley site in Tanzania where the Leakeys did much of their digging, Mary worked her fossil-hunting magic again 10 years later. While Louis lay feverish in his tent, she burst in, shouting "I've got him! I've got him--our man!" The find, consisting of two bulges of brown fossilized molars protruding from a slope, turned out to be the skull of a 1.75 million-year-old human ancestor the Leakeys called Zinjanthropus ("Man from East Africa"). The discovery, notes paleoanthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of California, Berkeley, marked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARY NICOL LEAKEY: 1913-1996: FIRST LADY OF FOSSILS | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

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