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...began in August 1986. About 6 million copies of a companion series, Baby-Sitters Little Sister, for slightly younger readers, have been snatched up in just two years. Now the spin-offs are descending. Baby-Sitters calendars and school planners are already on the market, as are two videos. Milton Bradley sells a Baby-Sitters board game, and Remco Toys plans a new line of Baby-Sitters dolls, complete with a closetful of outfits and tiny tots to tend...
...notion that investors should diversify their portfolios seems self-evident now. But when Harry Markowitz first proposed a systematic way to implement that strategy, the financial community scoffed and no less an economist than Milton Friedman was skeptical. Said he: "Harry, what's this? It's not mathematics; it's not economics; it's not finance...
TREND TRACKING by Gerald Celente, with Tom Milton (Wiley; $24.95). Far better than the best-selling Megatrends, this analysis of current economic, social and political conditions foresees disgruntled voters flocking to a third party, a return to the idealism of the '60s and career opportunities in such fields as education, solar energy and marine biology. But avoid cookie franchises. The world, say the authors, "doesn't need a new chocolate chip cookie...
...battle over educational vouchers blurs ideological lines by pitting theorists of the right and the left against cautious centrist reformers and the custodians of the educational status quo. The idea was popularized by economist Milton Friedman in his 1962 conservative classic, Capitalism and Freedom. Liberal activists then gave the notion a brief vogue in the early 1970s as an experiment sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The Reagan Administration tepidly tried to revive vouchers in the mid-1980s, and George Bush gave lip service to the concept during the 1988 campaign. But the current intellectual momentum stems from...
...years has featured guests such as Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea and Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach), two new shows are getting funkier and further afield. BluesStage transports listeners to down-and-dirty locales to hear rhythm-and- blues stars, including the Persuasions. A recent episode highlighted veteran Little Milton from the gritty B.K. Lounge in Rochester. The emcee and commentator for the weekly program is Grammy-winning R.-and-B. soul sister Ruth Brown, who also earned a Tony for her role in the Broadway musical Black and Blue...