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...ROYAL BOSOM Porcelain maker Bernardaud is reproducing pieces from the Queen's service, including the Jatte-téton bowl, which, legend has it, was molded on her breast...
...fast-growing companies that are "green or clean." One such holding is Fuel Tech, which supplies pollution control and cleaning equipment to those nasty coal-fired power plants. Robinson also maintains stakes in the healthy-living sector, owning companies like Whole Foods Market and even the controversial HerbaLife, a maker of nutrition and weight-loss products. He's not averse to financial, biotech or telecom stocks either, stretching the notion of eco-friendly. Last year he made a killing off a telecom stock, Redback. "They're helping networks to move data faster, reducing the use of paper," he says...
...major holding today is Zoltek, a maker of carbon fiber. What's green about that? Carbon fiber is a component of wind-turbine blades, and Zoltek's orders have soared as wind energy expands worldwide. Automakers are also evaluating carbon fiber as a substitute for some metals to improve fuel economy, and next-generation hybrids and fuel- cell vehicles should contain more of the material. Except for the Japanese, "all the auto companies are using or testing carbon fiber with Zoltek," Robinson says. The stock is up more than 185% this year...
APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD Virginia Senator George Allen, the political gag gift that keeps on giving, is in the news again. This time it's over his alleged failure to disclose stock-option grants and other transactions in companies like Xybernaut, maker of, in the A.P.'s words, "a computer people can wear on their heads." Just what Allen needs: Dunce...
...John Abizaid, the Centcom commander who has been a key decision maker, been openly criticized or sharply questioned by Congress about his strategy. The get-along, go-along culture of the top brass creates tensions with officers in Iraq, who complain that their requests for more troops are often ignored because senior officers do not want to deliver more bad news to the Pentagon. A sharp contrast is provided by the Israeli military, which started an inquiry into its own failures in Lebanon last summer even before the fighting ended. "The Israelis demand accountability for poor performance...