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Preparing for junior's arrival raises a diaper load of questions: Bottle or nipple? Thumb or pacifier? Cloth or disposable? For answers, just click on BabyCenter.com a new Website for parents-to-be with a due-date calculator and tips from baby doc T. Berry Brazelton. Best of all: the baby-namer database of 5,000 given names, from Anglo-Saxon to Yoruban, searchable by gender, origin and popularity. A Gaelic name that starts with B? No problem: Blaine. Here's hoping your Yoruban baby isn't Aina: a "complicated delivery...
...what's the issue again? Campaign-finance reform? Strategizing with volunteers, Baldwin blames Big Business and the neediness of political candidates ("These people are junkies," he says). He also blames the Republicans, who he says are capable of "horrendous acts." But that's a lot to load onto your average American, so when Baldwin steps into the Holyoke Mall, he intends to keep it simple and nonpartisan (which the Creative Coalition purports to be). He will simply ask the common folk if they want to clean up the political system and get rid of all that tainted money. It becomes...
Imagine the frenzy at Charles Schwab & Co., the nation's largest online brokerage house, as it attempted to handle the siege of 1.5 million customer inquiries--three times its normal volume. Or at the boutique E-shop Datek, which handled more than 20,000 transactions, double its usual load. Similar scenes were played out in a dozen online brokerages across the country as Net users took to their computers to buy and sell stock. Whatever else the "Correction of '97" signifies, it will surely be remembered for finally sanctifying online money managing...
...market made me scared," I replied. "It's going down big." "Hah," she said. "That's the signal I need. When bulls like you run scared, I want to load the boat up. Everybody will be real negative by the end of the day, setting us up for a terrific snapback rally." Moment of hope. "When?" I said, hoping that my wife, known as the Trading Goddess (for her prescient days as a head trader), would give me a buy signal. "Now? Soon? What time?" The Trading Goddess spoke softly. "I will let you know. But it will come today...
...film Bean is exactly the wrong venue for Atkinson's character. Applying a simple-minded and contrived plot--or indeed applying any kind of plot of import, especially one with morals and attempted emotional baggage--just isn't the kind of load the framework of the character of Bean is supposed to support. It's like having an hour-and-a-half long "Seinfeld" episode about something and expecting viewers to care sincerely about the daily pitfalls of the characters--pitfalls which are so endearing because they are everyday and unimportant. Bean takes Atkinson's comic mastery and confines...