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...events. If the federal government is too wimpy to enforce safety measures, let?s turn to our state lawmakers. It?s about time for action. It?s been four years since the New England Journal of Medicine ran its infamous statistic: Using cell phones increases drivers? risk of accidents fourfold - or about the same amount as drinking and driving. And while it might be reasonable to assume this kind of dire warning would be enough to keep drivers? eyes on the road and off their little dial pad, it apparently hasn?t done a darn bit of good. More drivers...
...offer a chance for smaller guys to go international. WaveRider Communications, based in Toronto, a maker of wireless Web equipment, has just opened a South Florida office to prospect for new business in such places as rural Venezuela, where the government's peculiar radio-frequency allocations drive up costs fourfold for some components. "If we could get low-cost, 128K wireless connections into their schools, offices and homes, they'd go crazy for it," says Scott Winn, the firm's South America manager...
Finally, I want to read a brief excerpt from a poem by Rav Kook called "The Fourfold Song"...This is a poem Shira and I learned on our Israel trip and it has always reminded me of Shira...
...Chrysler and New York City. As Ronald Reagan's political director in the 1980s, he salved the egos of Governors and lawmakers. And as senior vice president at Eli Lilly & Co., he transformed the old-line corporate culture amid rapid changes in health-care services, helping fuel a fourfold rise in Lilly's stock. "He builds consensus around the things that aren't peoples' first choice," says Randy Tobias, the firm's chairman emeritus...
...retrospect, of course, 1990 was a great time to be loading up on stocks. Since a bear market ended late that year, the NASDAQ has risen 10-fold and the Dow more than fourfold. Whether the next decade will prove as profitable is an interesting question but one that, frankly, can't be answered. Long-term investors can take comfort in knowing that the overwhelming odds are for stocks to be higher a decade from now. But that doesn't help much in times like these, when all you really want to know is whether the bloodletting is nearly over...