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...know??how to pick a good stock, right? Read up on a company's products, listen to what the CEO has to say, figure out where the industry is headed. Well, that's rubbish and pure distraction, according to quants, a breed of computer-loving money managers, many of them ex-mathematicians and physicists, who are gaining a following among ordinary investors...
...people know??the perils of drug abuse better than a 55-year-old former schoolteacher whose job it used to be to teach that very topic--which is why it's particularly ironic that she's a cocaine addict today. More than 30 years ago, Gwen--who prefers to keep it to one name when discussing her addiction--spent her days teaching in the Virginia school system and drafting the schools' drug-and-alcohol-abuse curriculum. She spent her nights researching the subject firsthand...
...GIRL'S GUIDE TO BUYING DIAMONDS: How to Choose, Evaluate, and Buy the Diamond You Want By Randi Molofsky Quarry Books Everything shoppers should know???including the old cut, color, carat and clarity issues?is hit upon in this easy-to-read manual about a girl's best friend...
...As a woman in science, I know??that you cannot overestimate the pervasiveness of attitudes discouraging girls from pursuing math and science. I grew up in a university town, the daughter of a female biologist, but still felt societal and peer pressure that made me believe I couldn't be smart at science. I credit my seventh-grade science teacher with encouraging me to break through my personal stereotypes and refusing to allow me to settle for B's or C's when he knew I could achieve...
...sounded frank and loving about her husband. "He is a very private person, and he's not the candidate?I am." Before finally agreeing to release his tax returns, "we got through a whole discussion, and ... his reaction then was, 'Gerry, I don't want to hurt you, you know???here they are.' " Still, when a defense of Zaccaro would have been foolish, she demurred. After learning early this year that he had, in 1979, bought back her half-share in the Manhattan building, she said, " 'Why did you do it?'... He said, 'It was legal.' And I said, 'Sure...