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Invest in the stock market, if you have money you can afford to put away for the long term, because over the long term, stocks always outperform safer investments. But do your investing indirectly, through no-load mutual funds. Don't try to guess when children will stop murdering their playmates for Nikes or when overcapacity in the used auto-parts market will be sopped up -- let a pro guess for you. Don't try to be nimble or quick; try to be patient...
...World Solar Challenge across Australia. To run dependably on cloudy days, a solar car would have to carry sufficient power to make the trip on batteries alone. Better to charge the car from a wall socket and use the solar cells elsewhere -- perhaps at power stations to ease the load of generators running on nuclear or nonrenewable fossil fuels. The real value of Sunraycer, says MacCready, was that its improvements in aerodynamics, lightweight materials and motor technology made possible GM's Impact, a non-solar electric car now being readied for mass production...
...northern edge of the Soviet Union is particularly nettlesome) until they get them right. Creative use of mnemonics helps. "Beware of hot gorillas eating nitrates casually, pop" is code for the Central American countries of Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Smith leavens the work load with games like geography baseball, in which a home-run problem might be: name the 15 Soviet republics. Later in the year, it would become: name each of their capitals. Slowly, the contours of the world come into focus...
...Bush Administration's bailout has been moving quickly. The Resolution Trust Corp., which is responsible for liquidating and selling off insolvent thrifts, has closed or sold 96 since the beginning of April and expects to handle another 45 by the end of this month. But the RTC's work load keeps growing; the CBO estimated last week that as many as 1,700 thrifts in the U.S. may collapse, more than half the S&L industry. The RTC has only enough money to deal with another 120 institutions at best. After that, the cleanup will come to a halt unless...
...sitnov, First Hubby may be about three bricks shy of a load, which is the title of one of Roy Blount Jr.'s amiable volumes of uptown down-home humor. Still, Blount is good company whatever he's writing, even if his puns ("Li Pung lizards!" as a comment on Clementine's China policy) hit the wall and dribble down like tossed eggs. And even if some of the jokes are merely gags (he wants to make love, she has a headache, he's hurt, and she says no, a political headache: she has to fire the Defense Secretary). That...