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...customary in the nation’s capital, Bradley’s book is likely to receive the so-called “Washington read”—a quick scan through the index for one’s name—from Harvard faculty, administrators, and students...
...search the Web. (Existing search tools built into Windows are too cumbersome to compare, says Dave Goebel, president of the search advisory firm Goebel Group.) These free programs, typically just a few megabytes in size, are easy to download. Once installed, the software gets to work indexing files, a task that can take several hours and is done only when the machine is idle. From then on, you simply click on an icon or a toolbar to use it. Google Desktop Search (available at desktop.google .com) works inside your Web browser: type keywords into the search field, just...
...betting now is that Kimberly-Clark and Colgate will be next.) The buying binge is also being fueled by rising stock prices--and the loads of cash piling up on corporate balance sheets. The S&P 500 is up 40% from its 2002 low, and companies in the index are sitting on $2.3 trillion in cash. Writing dividend checks is one way to spend the largesse. Microsoft paid $32 billion in dividends last year, and dividends are expected to rise 10% on average this year. Many executives, though, are cracking open the piggy bank and looking for acquisition targets...
Finally, a lot of pros believe we're in the early stages of a long run of commodity inflation driven by demand for raw materials in China. The Commodities Research Bureau index has jumped 36% since 1999, prompting institutions to triple the money they have tied to commodities. Stocks or funds of raw-materials companies, including energy and gold mining, are one way to go. Or you could buy an Exchange Traded Fund that directly owns gold, such as iShares Comex Gold (launched last week) or StreetTracks Gold. Or you could try a fund that invests in a commodities index...
...Similar moves in the past have done little to rekindle trading. The combined index for China's two bourses, in Shanghai and Shenzhen, is down 46% from its 2001 peak. Last year, the bourses lost 15% of their combined value, one of the worst stock-market performances in the world; they are currently trading near six-year lows. Meanwhile, the weekly trading volume on the Shanghai exchange has plummeted nearly sixfold, from a high of 178 billion yuan during the week ending Feb. 18, 2000, to 31 billion yuan last week...