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...Grief counselors and MIT officials met with students and boarders in the ATO house this week...
Like some sort of biblical plague, toxic mold has been creeping through homes, schools and other buildings across the U.S. Although press reports have focused on stachybotrys, strains of aspergillus, chaetomium and penicillium have also triggered their share of grief. At least two families have burned their homes to rid themselves of the contamination. Thousands more, including antipollution crusader Erin Brockovich, are suing home builders, landlords and insurers for damages to their property and their health. Last month the California state senate approved the country's first mold bill, which would set standards for acceptable levels indoors and require home...
When the Internet bubble was in full swing, legends Peter Lynch (who can't work a PC) and Warren Buffett (who won't touch a PC stock) took a fair amount of grief for their technophobic ways. To their credit, they raised awareness of the risks building throughout the stock market--and in tech land in particular. Yet I thought they were wrong to warn individual investors consistently off tech stocks entirely, and I said so in a November 1999 column...
Fans of famed movie pig Babe were wallowing in grief after recent reports that he was headed to the slaughterhouse for fear of foot-and-mouth disease. In fact, the porker marked for doom was another celeb pig, named Grunty, who starred in the British TV show Pig at the Ritz--and who was ultimately spared. That's Babe at right. We think...
...high prices were unsustainable and came crashing down in March, bringing the whole market with them. Singhania and three other brokers who had placed orders for the Big Bull defaulted on large payments owed to the exchange, leaving it nearly unable to meet expenses. At first the crash brought grief: brokers and investors on Lyons Range crumpled to the pavement, weeping. Then there was anger: a mob of brokers roamed the exchange's halls vowing to kill Singhania, who wisely went into hiding...