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...started copying his style. Now he looks for the stuff they pass over. In 2000 he struck an obscurantist's mother lode. His local record shop, Village Music in Mill Valley, Calif., bought the entire stock of a defunct 1980s dance-music store at an auction. Davis went mad flipping through 10,000 records--mostly rare new wave European singles--that had been frozen in a storage locker for the past decade. "DJ Shadow is my best customer," says Village Music's John Goddard, who guesses that Davis has relieved him of around 7,500 pieces of vinyl over...
SOHN: There is a crisis of confidence in the stock market. It is wider and deeper and more basic than it used to be. People are saying, "I knew the stock market was a gamble, but I thought it was an honest casino. I am mad and angry, and I am going out and buying a car or house instead of being in the stock market...
...either). And TIPS guarantee you can't lose money after inflation. They're no longer cheap but still yield up to 3.1 percentage points over the current inflation rate. Put them in your IRA or other retirement account, where their quirky tax features won't "drive you stark raving mad," as Loomis Sayles Bond Fund manager Daniel Fuss puts it. You can buy tips directly from the government, at www.publicdebt.treas.gov/sec/seciis.htm or in a fund from Vanguard or Pimco...
Enter Stitch, a killing machine from the planet Turo. An unholy mix of E.T. and the Zuni fetish doll that scared the wits out of Karen Black in the never-to-be-forgotten TV movie Trilogy of Terror, Stitch was created by a mad scientist--or, as he prefers to be known, an "evil genius"--who gave the creature only one instinct: "to destroy everything it touches." Stitch escapes to Earth, a primitive planet that the Turans have allowed to exist as a "protected wildlife preserve to repopulate the mosquito." Stitch wanders into a dog pound and is adopted...
...York personnel director. After her mother moved to the nearby retirement condo, she became ill and needed 24-hour home care for a time. Her daughter found the perfect aide, but when the older woman felt stronger, "Mom took out all her frustration on the aide. She was mad that she needed help with things." There was no reasoning with her, so the daughter replaced the aide with someone to help her mom shower and do housework for an hour each day. "Mom wouldn't let her do anything. I had to fire...