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Stock pickers should consider steel (Nucor, International Steel Group), fertilizer (Agrium), farm equipment (Deere), coal (Peabody), precious metals (Newmont Mining), paper goods (International Paper, MeadWestvaco) and energy (ExxonMobil). Then, when the prices you pay at the counter go up, so should your portfolio...
Alexander Mccall Smith is fond of a fat--make that traditionally built--woman named Precious. Their dalliance began as many a relationship has, during a holiday in France. On a trip in 1996, McCall Smith scribbled a few lines of a short story, which grew into a novel and then into a series chronicling the life of Precious Ramotswe, owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Gaborone, Botswana. Five books into the series, he has no intention of breaking it off. "To say goodbye now would be like leaving in the middle of a conversation," the Zimbabwean-born...
...Democrat policy wonks who produced his agenda. Kerry, however, is engulfed by the sort of people Howard Dean railed against: timid congressional Democratic staff members and some of the old Clinton crowd, less hungry now, less rowdy, too rutted in past successes to try anything new. There are precious few sharp young people in positions of responsibility and--very strange for a Democrat--no prominent blacks or Latinos in the inner circle either. Kerry's may be the most sclerotic presidential campaign since Bob Dole...
Then there is the whole abstinence debacle. In the face of an overwhelming public health consensus, the White House continues to fund “abstinence only” sex-ed programs throughout the U.S. More troubling is that precious millions from the President’s global AIDS budget have been earmarked for these programs abroad...
Despite the fact that all men have turned in to the University their ration books for the precious white powder, officials apparently felt it necessary to cut consumption. There were no complaints about the new restriction, but several books on bee culture were borrowed from Widener during the evening...