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...doctor or scientist, go ahead and take your best shot. Biotech certainly holds great promise, and you may well understand enough to pick the few stocks that will thrive. But overall the industry has been so consistently disappointing that laymen should stay away lest they get fleeced...
...lest this critic sound completely dismissive of the holiday honoring a third-century martyr with a penchant for matchmaking, something actually did go sublimely right this Valentine's: the rousing production of "The Tales of Hoffmann" by the Dunster House Opera...
...Americanisms is only the tip of France's long-standing obsession with language. In the 18th-century court portrayed in "Ridicule," the skillful manipulation of language is the sole means of gaining and keeping social status. The world of Versailles is shaped by what they refer to as "wit." Lest one believe that this wit is based on the crass premise of merely producing amusement, one French noble dismisses disdainfully the "hew-mah" of the English as being far inferior to French wit. The use of wit is sadistic, funny only if you enjoy seeing people being cut down with...
...verified until Harold Edgerton's high-speed photography at M.I.T. Impressive too are his moral sensibilities. He mentions that he has invented an underwater breathing device, then notes that divers could use it to sneak up on enemy ships and sink them. So he destroyed it, he says, lest "the evil nature of men" turn it into an instrument of death. Half a millennium later, he clearly remains a man ahead of his time...
...company has had little choice but to keep raising its rate of acquisition lest it disappoint shareholders, whom Ray Loewen has promised annual earnings growth of 25% or more. Perversely, though, that promise prompted stock analyst Steve Saltzman to recommend last April that Loewen shareholders sell their stock. "My concern," he says, "is that at some point this company suddenly hits a wall because it simply can't manage the growth." Even under the best conditions, such rapid growth would be hard to sustain; Loewen's battle with Jerry O'Keefe has made it infinitely more difficult. THE COST...