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WHEN IGNORANCE IS BLISS If those mutual-fund ads that tout amazing returns look too good to be true, it could be because they're ignoring NASDAQ's 23.5% nose dive since March 10. Such backward-looking ads reflect the previous quarter's or even the previous year's returns. And with many funds driven by weighty tech holdings, last year's results may look brighter than those of the recent past. Of course, some funds may have thrived despite the latest downturn. But the NASD and the SEC are taking a hard look at what could be overly rosy...
...Frazier is--thwack!--training a boxer on the heavy bag at his North Philadelphia gym. "Don't reach," Frazier admonishes. Louder thwacks. Suddenly the former heavyweight champion stops, squints his eyes, then gently wipes the boxer's runny nose with his gloved hand. "What?" the younger athlete says, momentarily self-conscious. "Do I have snot there...
...sweet science? Anne Vitiello, a former amateur and a commentator for HBO's boxing website, calls boxing an "archetypal experience" that transformed her life. With sharpened clarity and a less combative nature ("It's easier to get your boss coffee when you both know you can break his nose"), Vitiello says in the course of her years of boxing she found a successful freelance career, marriage and motherhood--a pretty good return for getting punched repeatedly...
...cells to isolate the genes responsible for the transformations. As with most adult stem cells, these cells appear, so far, to be limited in the types of tissue into which they can differentiate. Yet they still give rise to many different kinds of neurons--from sensory cells in your nose to touch receptors on your fingertips. The next step, Anderson says, is to figure out how that happens...
...agent who goes undercover as a grandmother in a Southern town. In addition to floral frocks and pearls, his wardrobe included a 40-lb. fat suit and 3 in. of rubber on his face. "He spent three hours in makeup each day," says director Raja Gosnell. "The forehead, nose and eyes are his, but he needed work on his cheeks, chin and upper lip." Does male vanity know no bounds...