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...breakthrough is based on the long-known fact that sperm have a gender, in a manner of speaking: some carry an X chromosome and some carry a Y. If the former fertilizes an egg, the baby will be a girl; if the latter, a boy. Over the years, fertility gurus have tried to boost production of X- or Y-bearing sperm through diet, or attempted to pick out Ys by their supposedly faster swimming speed or distinct electric charge--with dubious success...
However, the demand for technology has expanded much faster than the supply of people who really know what's going on, people who keep their finger on the pulse of this great expansion. The result is a market for technical interpreters and gurus...
...market's craziness last week brought that lesson home to me. While everyone knows the troubles that left the market vulnerable--Asia, Lewinsky, stock prices that are historically high relative to earnings--what set off last Tuesday's rockslide was one of those oft-quoted gurus, Ralph Acampora of Prudential Securities, who reversed his prediction of a day earlier and said on CNBC that we may be entering a bear market for blue chips. The Dow Jones 30 industrials shed 300 points in a flash. But the real pain came Wednesday, when the market dropped an additional...
Sure, we can all hold off buying until the TV stock gurus tell us some market "bottom" has been reached. We can all sit in cash and never take any risk. Or we can buy companies we've researched and believe in that are pulled down by panicky selling of the overall market. The latter is what's called investing...
Although the use of performance enhancers is prohibited in most sports, it isn't just a question of cheating. The drugs can kill athletes--or make them very sick and shorten their career. Yet they keep taking the stuff, relying on so-called drug gurus to dose them in undetectable ways, and on ever more elaborate strategies to beat drug tests. One of the most devious: using a catheter to pump someone else's urine into their urethra just before a test...