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SMOOTH SAILING Fidelity's Magellan fund was supposed to have become too big to manage. But after stumbling for a couple of years, the nation's largest mutual fund is reasserting itself. Last year the tech-heavy fund, run by Robert Stansky, beat the soaring S&P 500 with a 33% return. In February, Magellan pulled in nearly $500 million from investors, its highest monthly net in more than three years, according to Alpha Equity Research. So is bigger better again? No, says a study by Financial Research: in any given fund category, smaller funds generally beat bigger ones...
...Keynes' largest influence came from a convoluted, badly organized and in places nearly incomprehensible tome published in 1936, during the depths of the Great Depression. It was called The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money...
Hubble's last great contribution to astronomy was a central role in the design and construction of the Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain. Four times as powerful as the Hooker, the Hale would be the largest telescope on Earth for four decades. It would have been even longer, but its completion was interrupted by World War II. So was Hubble's career. The ex-major signed on as head of ballistics at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. (At one point the eminent astronomer spent an afternoon test-firing bazookas, at great personal risk, to pinpoint a design flaw...
...field back and forth with a horse-drawn harrow and realized that an electron beam could scan images the same way, line by line, just as you read a book. To cap it off, he spent much of his adult life in a struggle with one of America's largest and most powerful corporations. Our kind...
Vitamin E-enriched and aloe vera-enhanced, this sunblock in a spray bottle marks the largest technological advance in the industry since the invention of artificial banana scent...