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...serious gardeners as well as apartment dwellers with teeny window boxes, planting bulbs is one of autumn's sweetest pleasures. And just like fall fashions, bulbs are subject to crazes (as in the Dutch tulip bubble, circa 1630). Horticultural gurus say that this season, black, orange and fragrant bulbs are the ones to plant. While a truly black tulip has not yet been created, Black Hero (a deep crimson, below) and Black Parrot (a dark maroon) come close. If you want aroma and color, try Orange Princess or candy-striped Carnaval de Nice. Most bulbs can be bought from online...
Throw in unusually high levels of short selling (a bet that stocks will fall) and frenzied institutional selling that drove the Dow to its closing low of 7702 on July 23, and you have a classic snapshot of how bear markets are supposed to end. Some market gurus now say the average stock is undervalued by 20% or more. Even if the major indexes haven't hit rock bottom, individually "many companies likely have hit their low," says Donald Straszheim of the economics firm Straszheim Global Advisors...
...Bantam's players go platinum, it will be because the company listened closely to hard-core music users--college kids. On campuses across the nation, Bantam employs student "gadget gurus," who test models and get feedback from peers. When students requested more volume capacity, lighter weight and color faceplates, Bantam delivered. "A lot of tech companies try to force the market," says president Santosh Petel. "We provide what customers demand." That's an approach big record labels haven't tried in quite a while...
...Placed next to the appalling ego circuses of Eastern gurus such as Sai Baba or Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the goings-on at Zen Center were pretty tame fare. But the real lure of Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center (Counterpoint; 385 pages) isn't the abuses and failings it chronicles, so much as the fact that they happened in the ever-elusive, and ever-alluring, world of Zen. Of all the Far Eastern spiritualities that Americans began importing as replacements for their own moribund faiths in the '60s and '70s, Zen has always...
There may be good reasons to load up your 401(k) with company shares. After all, stock-picking gurus Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch have always counseled to buy what you know. You probably know more about your outfit's prospects than those of any other company--whether it's developing hot new products, for instance. It's one stock with which you might have an edge...