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Barrett is underwhelmed by today's New Age celebrities. Dr. Andrew Weil, for example, is "very slick but makes glaring errors and hardly ever admits anything is quackery. I call him a 'rubber ducky.'" Deepak Chopra he dismisses as a purveyor of "Ayurvedic mumbo jumbo." (Chopra, for his part, calls Barrett "a self-appointed vigilante for the suppression of curiosity...
Another opportunity may exist for those in a mortgage just over the break point between so-called conforming and jumbo loans. In 2000 the break point was a loan value of $252,700. It just rose to $275,000 for 2001. You may have a chance to refinance out of the more costly jumbo into a conforming mortgage. For rates and options, check out hsh.com eloan.com and bankrate.com...
...Jumbo Wyoming farm boy who beat a three-time champion to win Olympic gold in wrestling...
...THAT TUNE If you're tired of all the digital-music mumbo-jumbo and wonder whatever became of radio, we're happy to report that it's alive and well--and ready to be plugged into your PC. A free program called SongCatcher www.songcatcher.com records your favorite broadcasts to your hard drive. Overnight the program separates the music and chatter into tracks you can load to an MP3 player or burn onto a CD. Next from the SongCatcher folks: a talk-radio version, so you can take Dr. Laura in tolerable doses...
...Singapore Airlines Flight 006 solely on the pilot who turned onto the wrong runway [AVIATION, Nov. 13]. Surely authorities at Taipei's airport should share some responsibility for what happened. A runway that was under repair was not adequately closed off, and no one seemed to notice that a jumbo jet was taking off from the wrong runway. More than one person should take responsibility for the tragedy. BINA MENON Selangor, Malaysia...