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...many Americans, Armstrong?s third victory - much like his first in 1999 and his second in 2000 - will pass more or less unnoticed. The Lance-mania that has gripped the Tour has yet to make its way across the Atlantic. If America?s best cyclist does win Sunday, there will be none of the hysterical and over-the-top celebrations that coincide with NBA or NFL championships. Little press will be dedicated to what is generally considered the world?s most grueling and spectacular cycling event, which stretches over 21 days and 2,159 miles. In Europe, Armstrong cannot walk...
...Waiting for the U.S. is risky, and not just because the growth might never come. Even if the U.S. economy does pick up later this year, it could be a decade before there is a repeat of the high-tech mania that carried Asia for three years after the 1997 crisis. New technologies, such as third-generation mobile phones, have been glitchy, and even consumers with money to spend seem unimpressed by those innovations that have come on the market. Unless U.S. shoppers can be convinced that something is wrong with the computers they already have, or that they need...
...biggest winners are the industries feeding off mold mania. "Six years ago, people laughed in my face," says Ed Cross, a lawyer in Santa Ana, Calif. Since then, he has won mold settlements as large as $978,000 and says he gets 50 calls a week from potential clients. Steve Temes, an industrial hygienist in Red Bank, N.J., charges $150 an hour for mold inspections. "I used to do radon and lead testing," he says. "But there was no demand...
...Lear has partly written, a new movie due out early next year. It stars Ryan O'Neal as a burglar whose passion, as luck would have it, is chess. The original title was "The Thief Who Came to Dinner." Now, their eyes aglow at the thought of the mania sweeping the country after the Fischer-Spassky match in Iceland, Yorkin and Lear are eagerly dreaming up a good chess title...
...misery loves company, investors hammered by the current slump in tech stocks can take solace in the tale of one of the original financial bubbles. The "Tulip Mania" exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. (through July 23), displays a collection of watercolor paintings of tulips from the 1630s, along with intriguing information about the frenzy over them. During that decade, the price of a rare tulip bulb escalated to as much as 5,200 guilders. (By comparison, Rembrandt's fee for The Night Watch was 1,600 guilders.) Bulbs were used as dowries and exchanged for shiploads...