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...indiscriminately bid up stocks of cloning companies. Shares of PPL Therapeutics of Edinburgh, which helped fund the sheep-cloning research, jumped 16% in a day. There have been some genuine commercial successes, such as Biogen Inc.'s drug Avonex, approved last year to treat multiple sclerosis. Still, a dangerous froth is forming. "During the next six months you're going to see quite a few disasters," predicts Evan Sturza of Sturza's Medical Investment Letter...
...overlying rock. As the ascending ooze climbs higher, the pressure on it is dramatically reduced, allowing gases trapped within to bubble out like carbonation in an opened bottle of soda. As this happens, the magma takes on a foamier consistency, increasing its speed and mobility. When this scalding froth rises high enough to make contact with subterranean water, the water flashes into steam, turning the whole hellish mix into a natural pressure cooker. Finally, the explosively pressurized magma blasts out of the earth in an eruption that can send rocks, ash and gases flying out at near supersonic speeds...
...weeks of investigation, the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board still cannot say for certain whether Flight 800 was brought down by a bomb, a missile or a mechanical malfunction. In the absence of a conclusive explanation, the Internet has whipped facts, factoids and un-facts into a froth of conspiracy theory. In a piece published in the Nov. 17 issue of the New York Times Magazine, authors Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen trace the strange progress of the friendly fire theory across the Net. One variant: the bombing was a hit. Henry Kissinger was the intended victim because...
...that dicey district known as Broadway, there are no sure bets, but reviving a cherished old musical comes close. Find a Rodgers and Hammerstein gem that's been away for a while or dust off a fondly remembered piece of froth like A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and nostalgic theatergoers will probably beat a path to your stage door...
...right, we've taken our licks. But this stuff is nothing more than talk show fodder and cocktail party froth. Remember, "It's the economy, stupid...