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...they do not allow. Doing so drives up costs and hurts performance by forcing managers to hold more cash than they would like or to sell stocks they would rather hold. These costs are borne by all shareholders. "This has the impact of someone picking your pocket," says Mercer Bullard, securities-law professor at the University of Mississippi...
...sensor in the child's underwear, the Malem Bedwetting Alarm erupts with a noise like a toy laser gun--loud enough to stop the flow but familiar enough not to frighten. At least that's the theory. Such bells and whistles do work better than medications, says Renee Mercer, author of the upcoming book Seven Steps to Nighttime Dryness. But they concern child expert Dr. T. Berry Brazelton. "They're punitive and can make children feel helpless," he says. --By Kristin Kloberdanz
Poor Tokyo can't get a break. In a recent survey, it kicked Hong Kong out of the top spot on Mercer Human Resource Consulting's list of the most expensive cities. (New York City slid into a thrifty 10th place, thanks to the weak dollar.) Tokyo also ranked as least popular in a new survey by consultancy Christian & Timbers, which asked about executives' attitudes toward six financial centers. (Hong Kong and Beijing were given a pass because of SARS.) Here are the top six from each list...
...Yale: "They come in, don't report to the local churches, stir up a hornet's nest and then quit town when the going gets tough. Why start a controversy if you're not there to face the brunt of it?" Seiple notes that after Curry's and Mercer's arrest in Afghanistan, "all of the other Christian organizations were expelled until the Taliban fell...
...Gulf War I, he still drew fire from the International Red Cross. It objected, he has written, to his mixing relief with religion by passing out a copy of something he called the Jesus film. The movie popped up in the news again in 2001 when aid workers Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry were arrested by the Taliban after Mercer showed an Afghan family what she later described as "a film about the life of Jesus...