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Replace the tech stocks that you shed with a mix of steady growers like food and drug stocks; companies that benefit from falling interest rates like banks, insurers, utilities and real estate investment trusts; and beaten-down cyclical stocks like home builders and retailers, which will rebound with a recovery. Some stocks in these groups have risen sharply in the past year, especially utilities, so pay attention to valuations. Or you can diversify easily through value-oriented mutual funds, like Clipper and Berger Small Cap Value...
...Genetically Modified Foods Millions of bushels of genetically modified corn, approved for animal feed but not for human consumption, turned up in Taco Bell taco shells and other food products. Though most of the food was recalled before it was eaten, the high-tech mix-up increased public skepticism about so-called Frankenfoods. In the meantime, public-health experts still have high hopes for golden rice, a strain that's genetically enriched with a precursor of vitamin A and that could help prevent blindness in hundreds of thousands of children in impoverished countries each year...
...baking marathon, blending some 11 cups of flour, six cups of sugar, a pound of butter and various other ingredients into an array of sweet treats. Martha Stewart's maddeningly precise and time-consuming recipe almost drove me to the pop-open cans, while AllRecipes' obtuse instructions and cake-mix ingredients struck me as suspect. I liked Epicurious' tip for using a sandwich bag with a hole in the bottom corner to drizzle on glaze like a pro, and found cooking.com's guidelines to be the most straightforward...
...editor pronounced "bland, dry and undistinguished." The others fell somewhere in between. While one colleague thought Epicurious' Sour Cherry Pecan Cinnamon Buns had "a nice tang," others found the dough too breadlike. I thought AllRecipes' self-proclaimed Best Ever Cinnamon Buns tasted surprisingly good considering that packaged cake mix was a main ingredient...
...early 1990s, as did a series of French and Italian ventures. But this wave of German companies isn't buying just studios, as Sony did. These companies are buying production teams and burrowing into the production process. "Each company is pursuing a different strategy involving a complex mix of production and distribution elements," says Stephan Seip, media analyst at Merrill Lynch. Some of those strategies have a fantasy feel--for $65 million, you too can be a movie mogul and rub shoulders with the stars. But others are based on long-term plans and objectives backed by years of experience...