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...published later this year in the Journal of Finance, argues that young fund managers are usually more averse to risk taking and actually outperform their older counterparts by a small margin. Case in point: Blaine Rollins, 31, a University of Colorado graduate who, when he's not playing laser tag or going to an Aerosmith concert, oversees a combined $670 million in assets at the Janus Balanced Fund and Janus Equity Income Fund. "There's always some executive who views you as a snot-nosed kid," says Rollins. "But if you've done your homework, you can talk...
Judging from what I saw at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta last week, Blow Up Stuff would be popular with lots of other gamers too. Never before have so many folks been assembled in one place to grab onto force-feedback joysticks and to bludgeon, laser-beam and Gatling-gun one another--at least not in peacetime. Halls the size of 35 football fields were jammed with computer- and video-game companies showing off their latest wares, in the understated tone that is a hallmark of such conventions. My fillings still rattle like castanets when I speak...
...requesting information and documents, including e-mail, sales data and meeting notes. The narrowly written requests, carefully shaped by Justice's allies, demanded items of such specificity that when the Feds arrived, there was little the recipients could do but swallow hard and hand over the goods. "We really laser-beamed it in on them so there was nowhere to move," says an executive who aided the probe. "We tried to make sure it wasn't just a couple of companies; we wanted to hit the entire industry so that everyone had a little cover. That way Microsoft couldn...
...screen sweeps through the air, it provides a moving target for the laser beams, allowing Favarola to project light into half-a-million chunks of three-dimensional space called "voxels" rather than the flat "pixels" on a television or computer screen...
Because the display unit is based on a television-like "raster display" rather than a typical laser-show "vector display," it can animate pictures with little computational effort, he said...