Word: plateauing
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...woolly worms are scarce this year, maybe because of the two-month dry spell, the one that induced the maples, oaks and sycamores marching high up the mountains on the Cumberland Plateau to skip turning red and gold and go straight to dead, brittle brown. The worms that have been found, however, are solid black, while the hornets are building their nests close to the ground, and the spiders are sticking together, weaving their webs nearly on top of one another. Taken together, these and other signs mean the coming winter "is going to be a humdinger," says Helen Lane...
Lasers: cool. Music and lasers: cooler. Head to the Museum of Science and check out Laser Nirvana, featuring "Smells Like Teen Spirit," "Lithium," "Come As You Are," "Plateau" and more. Then stay for the next show, Laser Metallica, and experience such tunes as "Enter Sandman," "One" and "Master of Puppets" as you never have before. Nirvana, 8 p.m.; Metallica, 9:15 p.m., Museum of Science, Science Park, Boston...
...willing to pay for such convenience? Two American-based firms with a list of global backers that reads like a high-tech Who's Who are rolling the dice in a multibillion-dollar gamble that they can answer those questions. In their effort to find that new plateau in communications, however, they're off to a rocky start...
...turned out right. Who but McGwire, after all, could not just pass Maris, not just leave the pesky Sosa behind, but keep piling on the homers until he hit a nice round number, just like Ruth? Mere players set records. When you're larger than life, only a plateau will...
...chief economist of Deutsche Bank, a German investment bank, has said the Dow will bottom out around 6500, while Abby Cohen, a prominent analyst for Goldman Sachs, is predicting a return to the 9300 plateau by the end of the year...