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...people who brought along planning proposals from our competitors, and they'd plugged in 18% yearly returns," says Bach. "For a while it was possible to back-test a hypothetical portfolio of 10 stock funds for 10 years and see those kinds of returns. So it wasn't pure fiction. But we ran our assumptions at 10% or 12%, and we never got the client." In the postbubble market, Bach says, he plugs in 6% returns and prays that he's being conservative enough...
REAL RAY GUNS Further out on the horizon, the line between weapons development and science fiction becomes perilously thin. Mission Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif., is working on a pulsed energy projectile (PEP) that superheats the surface moisture around a target so rapidly that it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The effect is like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the PEP travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies...
More and more baby boomers like Connor--single again after being widowed or divorced--are trying new-wave methods of dating such as cybermatchmaking, methods that could only have been deemed science fiction 30 years ago. In fact, at Match.com one of an estimated 2,000 singles websites, about 360,000 members who have posted profiles are 50 or older, says Trish McDermott, its resident dating coach. That is 10% of the site's total profiles. Other newly unattached baby boomers are writing personal ads, dating in groups and still using such tried-and-true methods...
...REAL RAY GUNS Further out on the horizon, the line between weapons development and science fiction becomes perilously thin. Mission Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif., is working on a pulsed energy projectile (PEP) that superheats the surface moisture around a target so rapidly that it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The effect is like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the pep travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies...
...irresponsible," says human-rights activist Steve Wright, who, as director of the Omega Foundation, works with Amnesty International to monitor nonlethal weapons. "What the U.S. invents today, others, including the torturing states, will deploy tomorrow." Just how much is that magic rubber bullet worth to us? Maybe some science fiction should remain fictional. - With reporting by Mark Thompson/Washington