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...with their industry groups, industry groups are diverging from one another. Data that indicate an increase in inflation, for example, may shock an entire industry, but if that industry is food, stocks go down, and if it's energy, they go up. Merrill Lynch's quantitative strategy group runs paper portfolios based on different stock-picking methodologies, and the industry-selection model has trounced all the others over the past ten months. ("Trounced" meaning lost a lot less.) While the industry-rotation portfolio is down 22%, those strategies that tease out particular growth or value stocks to buy have suffered...
Every country has veterans of some military conflict to commemorate, and Veterans’ Day exists in a number of other forms around the world. Remembrance Sunday in the United Kingdom involves commemorations at military bases, memorials and churches by people wearing paper poppies on their lapels. In memory of the Armistice and end of the First World War, silence is observed for two minutes. It is then that thoughts turn to service and the meaning of sacrifice...
...years later, she is writing her junior tutorial paper on the “re-emergence of electroshock therapy in the 21st century” and leading an effort to revive a nationwide History and Science journal...
...Harrington added that the department still encourages students to conduct their own research. And whether or not they choose to write a senior thesis, all concentrators still take History of Science 98, a junior year tutorial that culminates in a 25 to 35-page research paper...
...vividly remember my first Superman comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all I wanted to do is draw comics. And specifically, superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and draw my own comics on scrap paper. But I had an education which was rather hostile to that, because I was quite clever at school, and I could do other things like physics and chemistry and stuff, and so I got kind of sidetracked...