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...Books; 128pp.; $14.95) consists of ten short vignettes that occasionally relate to each other. The only words that appear are a few onomatopoeia such as "ring," "poff" and "boom." All of them feature a bird-man character with webbed feet and a crow's beak wearing a jacket and hat from the 1950s. The stories mix reality with nonsense, and humor with sadness. One episode has the bird-man followed around by a skeleton no one else can see. Unable to ditch the specter of death, bird-man accepts him as a houseguest, sharing his snacks and bathroom. When bird...
...trick is to separate the fallen angels from the real sinners. "If a stock is trading at $1 and it was trading at $50, it is telling you that unless a rabbit is pulled out of a hat, it is going bankrupt," says Jason Selch, analyst with Chicago-based Wanger Asset Management, which manages the Liberty Acorn Funds. Selch looks for orphans, stocks that have fallen so far out of favor that even brokers aren't paying attention to them. One orphan he owns is Navigant Consulting, which traded as high as $50 in 1999 and is now less than...
...traveled to Memphis, Tenn., he would see families hurrying past downtown landmarks like the Peabody Hotel to get a good seat at AutoZone Park. Outside Chicago, he would see Kane County Cougars players being swarmed by young fans. And in cities and towns from Shreveport, La., to Medicine Hat, Alta., he would see how the major leagues' little siblings have turned themselves into the hottest ticket in sports...
...cover," wrote a California woman. "I'm framing this dazzling picture as something to live up to as I near Pierres' age." But another Golden State sister was less impressed, declaring that "Pierres has obviously overdosed on Miami sunshine." A Minnesotan agreed. "Pierres needs to wear sunscreen and a hat, get a new hairdo and then have a more flattering photograph taken...
...have always enjoyed meeting new relatives, no matter how distant. Although this ancestor does not resemble any relatives that I've seen before, your artist's rendition bears a striking resemblance to the storybook monkey Curious George, a childhood favorite. But where does the Man with the Yellow Hat fit into our family tree? JON HERSHEY Akron, Ohio...