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...Reebok is one of the worst of some 1,500 stocks in CalPERS' portfolio, god bless 'em. They could teach Warren Buffet a thing or two. Have they no Woolworths? The company hasn't been worth a dime in a decade. Times-Mirror trades below its 1987 peak. Bethlehem Steel has been pure lead for years. I don't know if CalPERS owns those awful stocks. The point is that real losers are out there. Dumping on Reebok is like saying you don't want Shaq on your team because he isn't Michael Jordan. Reebok founder and CEO Paul...
...another Northwestern peak--Mount St. Helens--went bad the same way, leading to a volcanic explosion that blew out the north face of the mountain, killing 60 people. While the more stable magma in Mount Rainier makes an eruption unlikely, the corroded state of the mountain could make a landslide even more devastating. Mount St. Helens, after all, had been baking for 100 years after its last blast; Mount Rainier has cooked for 500. "It's only a matter of time," says Dan Miller, a volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), "before those towns near Rainier are buried...
...place where volcanoes loom. There are explosive mountains in every corner of the world. Late last week, Alaska's Okmok volcano coughed a cloud of ash nearly a mile into the sky, perhaps presaging a period of increased volcanic activity. Near Mexico City, Popocatepetl, a 17,887-ft. volcanic peak, has begun to smoke and churn, threatening 500,000 people who live beneath it. In Italy five active volcanoes are being watched, the most menacing of which is the temperamental Vesuvius. In Japan 86 active volcanoes are packed onto an archipelago smaller than California. Other volcanoes sputter and steam...
...threat volcanoes pose is nothing new, but popular appreciation of it is. The warning bell this time is being sounded not by scientists but by the entertainment industry. Two weeks ago, Universal Pictures released its heavily promoted volcano film, Dante's Peak, and in April, 20th Century Fox will release its more prosaically named Volcano. abc television will air a documentary on the world's most dangerous volcanoes next week, followed by a drama about an eruption at a West Coast ski resort...
...retrospect that Brad was frequently up until one and two in the morning with his Walkman and his drawings. He developed heavy black circles under his eyes within days. Because the two main meals of the camp, lunch and dinner, were served when Brad's Ritalin was working at peak potential, he had no appetite whatsoever for these meals, and he subsisted mainly on the many snack foods which he hoarded in his bedroom...