Word: gurus
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...gain effective control of US Airways, RSA outbid by 20% the Texas Pacific Group, based in Fort Worth, a private-equity outfit with long experience investing in distressed airlines. RSA has plunged into a battered industry that has bedeviled even value-stock gurus like Warren Buffett, who once described his airline investments as "temporary insanity." Olivia Mitchell, executive director of the Pension Research Council at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, warns that for a pension fund, direct investment in such a risky business--especially when the fund manager becomes the airline chairman--"creates a slippery slope...
...death of baseball pitcher Steven Bechler may have been linked to the herb ephedra [HEALTH, March 3]. It brings to the fore a problem that needs urgent regulatory attention. Alternative-medicine gurus and the burgeoning over-the-counter drug industry have fostered the notion that anything natural is safe. Well, the poisons strychnine, belladonna, ricin and botulin are all natural. Legislation is needed to prohibit advertising that implies "all natural ingredients" means "safe." HERMAN BIEBER Kenilworth...
...extras,” grooming and pampering being among them. Others resolutely refuse to give up their self-indulgence, becoming spoiled princesses with a vengeance. Admire these glimmering creatures: being a princess takes time and effort and they’ve spent semesters honing their skills and choosing their gurus. FM assembled a panel of experts to help you skip trial and error and go straight to the royal treatment...
...make trades, sign and cut players and idiotically trash-talk on the league’s Internet message board. At the end of the course, the student whose team is in first place will receive an A. Everyone else will receive an F (well, maybe a B). Baseball gurus Bill James and Peter Gammons will guest lecture in section and may compete with students in certain “advanced” leagues...
...Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) is a virtual Mecca for athletes and fitness gurus alike—Harvard’s Adonis-like men, health-conscious freshman girls and many in between are regular patrons of the MAC’s multiple weight rooms and coveted “Cardio Room.” But when demand for fitness equipment far exceeds the building’s supply, Harvard students can get a little too competitive...