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...rush back to the relative safety of a diversified mutual fund. "Investors have abandoned the risk side of the equation, but it's not sustainable," says Greg Johnson, president of Franklin Templeton Distributors, a $155 billion fund family that has lost $7 billion of cash this year as investors fled its faltering value and international funds. "There are more than 10 good ideas for investing...
...runway, broadsiding a steel tower that held landing lights. When the plane finally came to rest on a bank of the Arkansas River, it had split in three, and a fire had broken out near its left wing. As it erupted in flames, passengers fled for their lives. Nine people, including veteran pilot Captain Richard Buschmann, died--the first fatalities on a major U.S. airline in nearly a year and a half--and 83 were injured...
...nearly every day. We were almost the same age, but she was more mature than I was. She was interested in clothes and in film stars and in boys even. She was always laughing and giggling and always the center of attraction. At that time, my family had just fled Austria and moved to Amsterdam, and I spoke very bad Dutch. But she'd say, "Come and meet my father because he'll speak German with you." Which I did. And Otto Frank was extremely kind. He and his family had fled Frankfurt in 1933. They used to have...
There are lots of moments to begin this tale of Chinese spying, American bungling and diplomatic trembling, but let's take the day in 1955 when Shanghai-born Qian Xuesen goes home. He had fled the Japanese occupation of China and landed at M.I.T., then earned a Ph.D. at Caltech, where he joined a rocket-research group to pioneer supersonic aerodynamics and thin-shell-stability theory for ballistic missiles. At the university's prestigious Jet Propulsion Lab, he helped design Private A, the first U.S. solid-fuel missile that worked. Then he was invited into the U.S. Army...
...chasing frenetic actor ANDY DICK down an L.A. street last week was not looking for an autograph. After Dick crashed his car into a utility pole and fled the scene, a civic-minded bystander chased, caught and restrained him until police arrived. Dick was later charged with driving under the influence and possession of marijuana and cocaine. The arrest came hours after NBC announced it would not renew Dick's series NewsRadio and capped a troubled season for the comedian who can charitably be called eccentric. After a stint in a rehab clinic last year, Dick was threatened with arrest...