Word: giant
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...that you know what the word means, go down to the Science Center from noon to sunset to see live hip hop like hip hop like Harvard's own BSide, dance, Giant Puppets, poetry, spoken word and more. Noon to night, Harvard Yard. 625-5744 or email schock@fas.harvard.edu. FREE...
...homeowners in the 1980s learned to go to Home Depot, individual investors in the '90s have learned that they can get online almost all the information that used to be available only to the high rollers. And small investors can now trade for the same low commissions that giant institutions get--$8 for 100 shares, vs. the $100 or more that Merrill and other full-service brokers typically charge...
...intoxicating. The commissions are so low and the action so fast-paced that hundreds of thousands of new people each month find themselves hooked into the Internet, trading for $8 a pop, loving the excitement and potentially the rewards. But has online trading turned the stock market into a giant casino that threatens the financial lives of Americans? That's what John Steffens, a Merrill Lynch vice chairman in charge of stock brokerage, contends. He has gone to war against Internet trading in a series of public speeches, chronicled last week in the Wall Street Journal, urging individuals to abandon...
What I am able to see on this chunk of the Pacific is a minute fraction of what there is to see. At Point Lobos in Carmel, the mist creates false mountains over the water. The waves are humped like porpoises. Kelp, giant forests of seaweed by which Darwin was enthralled, shows only at the top. These plants, which can grow at a rate of 20 in. a day, reach down 100 ft. to granite reefs. The kelp is tethered by stipes-stems, structures that connect the base, or holdfast, to the leaflike blades. Gas-filled floats at the base...
...drinkers, Chile has made its mark by offering decent wine at low prices. The country's wine exports have soared from $50 million in 1990 to half a billion dollars this year. Chile is now the third leading wine exporter to the U.S., behind France and Italy, and its giant Concha y Toro winery, in the Maipo Valley, is America's No. 2 imported brand...