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...stock market has a brutal way of making even the smartest people look foolish. Just ask Bill Miller, America's most celebrated mutual fund manager, whose Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Maryland, has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled...
...what went wrong? Two years ago, says Miller, he began to home in on oil and gas stocks. He had never liked them, knowing that oil prices had fallen in real terms over 150 years while demand had grown at a desultory pace?"a formula for a bad long-term investment." Still, after years of lackluster performance, the sector was cheap, so he drew up a list of buys, like Devon Energy, Apache and XTO Energy. But he never bought them. "I was preoccupied with other things," Miller admits. "When I got around to doing it, the prices had moved...
...will hold, and whether xenotransplantation or stem cell-generated organs will win the race to supply our species with replacement organs. (The scientific community generally believes that at least one technique will be successful over the long haul.) The cliffhanger is warranted, since a snapshot of scientific research, as Miller provides, will generally give a murky picture of the future, especially, as in Sachs’ case, when funding is running perilously...
...most disappointingly, Miller dances around perhaps the most important question raised in an examination of biotechnology research. In a society with limited resources for medical research, should we primarily fund treatments and short-term cures, such as xenotransplantation, or should we fund research for preventive measures and long-term cures, such as stem cell technology? This question is at the center of today’s debate on biomedical budgeting, and Miller gives it short thrift. Still, Miller makes us ponder several sticky questions that face all of medical research, and learning them through xenotransplantation is at least an interesting...
...borrowing from Cambridge’s architecture might be for the best, considering the University’s conflictive past with locals over the campus’s construction of contemporary buildings (and this one in particular).In an interview on site, GSD Associate Professor of Architecture Laura J. Miller, said that the building’s skin is a “valorous attempt to make this project respond to the overly prescriptive review process that such projects undergo.” Pointing to the terracotta cladding’s color she said, “This is especially...