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With Tiger Woods mania driving every kid to pick up a set of clubs and hit the links, what better time to take a whack at golf stocks. That's the pitch for a new golf fund, due out this fall, that will invest in equipment, apparel makers and course developers. But before you pull a Big Bertha from your wallet, remember that Asia's woes have been a drag on industry stars like Callaway Golf and Family Golf Centers...
...There's more than just the Veep's enviro-mania and the "gee, isn't it hot" factor at work here. Higher temperatures are cited as evidence of global warming, which equals a good reason for the Senate to pass the meager emissions-cut treaty hammered out -- with Gore's help -- at Kyoto. In more immediate terms, warmer weather also means more disease. The World Health Organization is already reporting a jump in the number of malaria cases, not to mention cholera and the deadly hantavirus. All the more reason for Gore to ride the El Nino bandwagon...
...error occurred while processing this directive] Inexplicably, it was the most inflated stock of all -- Internet companies -- that bucked the trend Tuesday. In the face of a 300-point Dow plunge, Amazon.com and AOL managed to close with small gains. "You would expect the mania-type stocks to be hardest hit," says Kadlec, "but there's still a lot of high expectations surrounding the Internet." A correction is a correction nevertheless, and Kadlec believes the tech bubble will burst soon enough. Indeed, AOL dropped three points amid Wednesday's rally. Don't say we didn't warn...
Girsky thinks the company needs to junk 27 models to eliminate redundancy and stop competing with itself. Take the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird. In their heyday, the sporty siblings divided up a broad and profitable market of muscle-car enthusiasts. These days, though, muscle mania has waned, and the pair is left slugging it out in a narrowing segment. GM execs may want to keep at least one of the offerings to compete with the popular Ford Mustang, but they are faced with a dilemma: both cars are built in the same plant in Quebec, and killing one would...
Radio and then television dented the town-band mania starting in the 1930s, but the musical virus had already taken hold in U.S. public schools, and there it still rages, from grade school to college. Frederick Fennell, 85, former director of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, who is regarded by many as the dean of band directors, estimates that there are up to 50,000 school bands in the U.S.--a number that would challenge the nation's athletic teams. And still at the head of the parade marches the Marine Band...