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...says David Gardner, who with his brother Tom is responsible for starting the wildly popular online personal-investing forum called the Motley Fool. Located on America Online, the Fool (the name is inspired by a line in Shakespeare's As You Like It: "I met a fool i' the forest, a motley fool") has spearheaded a spectacular shift in the way investors' money is funneled into the stock market and challenged Wall Street brokerages for control of information (and rumors) about companies and their prospects. Drawing more than 350,000 visits a month, it is the most prominent...
...Rainforest Cafe's Motley Fool message board--an online repository of comments about a fast-growing chain of rain forest-themed restaurants--is a cyber lovefest. Investors delight in the restaurants' lifelike robot birds and monkeys, gleefully report on the long lines to get in, and cheer on the company's latest expansion plans. With the stock's meteoric rise--up some 700% since its IPO last year--postings often lapse into euphoria: "I love this company"; "I love every dollar I have thrown into it"; and the group's oft-repeated rallying cry, "Let it RAIN...
...been an outburst of earlier-than-usual fires in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. The latter two states have been especially ravaged, with New Mexico losing some 80,000 acres to flames and Arizona nearly 88,000. The conflagration that raced through northern New Mexico's Carson National Forest in early May particularly startled and unnerved experts. Says Mary Zabinski, fire-information officer with the U.S. Forest Service's southwestern region: "We have kiddingly called the Carson the asbestos forest because it is always so wet and at such a high elevation that it never burns. With the Carson burning...
Laitin took advantage of his timeout from Harvard to work in cloud forest as part of a Global-Roots volunteer program in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Because it does not rain year-long in that area, it is considered a cloud, and not a rain, forest, Laitin explains...
...Saturday morning at the Washington Post have no way of knowing that reporting on a break-in might help bring down a presidency. Reporters working on Watergate--or a report about the Chief of Naval Operations' battle decorations--are like someone driving on a winding road through a forest at night: they can see as far as their headlights and not much farther. It is their work to start the engine, switch on the lights and set off down that road. They must try to be decent and intelligent, but they are not responsible for the destination...