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Plenty of conservative investors predict the same fate for today's highflying Internet stocks, which owe much of their appeal to the growth in online commerce. So why are America Online and Yahoo, each in its way a portal to the Net, two of my favorite stocks? Because the Net really delivers what TV shopping only promised. Rather than sitting in front of the tube, stupefied by a parade of junk while waiting for something you might want to buy, on the Net you can instantly research and order exactly what you want--whether a pearl necklace or a ticket...
Other institutions charged with monitoring the countries liable to famine failed to deliver strong, early warnings. Last September the U.S.A.I.D. put out a bulletin on its Famine Early Warning System predicting that Sudan's bad harvest would cause shortages and lead to intensified fighting over supplies, but the organization did not predict a full-scale famine. When the U.N.'s World Food Program, a major partner in Operation Lifeline, was preparing in December to ask donor countries for 30,000 tons of food for Sudan, its own estimates showed at least 35,000 tons would be needed. (Today the program...
That goes for the whole country. Analysts predict that if the ruling Liberal Democratic Party does well in this weekend's parliamentary election, Hashimoto may win the clout he needs to push for controversial reform. Yet voter turnout is expected to be low, mainly because the public is disgusted with the political system. Moreover, an L.D.P. victory would depend on traditional supporters like farmers and construction workers, who are against reform because it would threaten their contracts and subsidies...
...good time to shop for a cheaper mortgage. Last week the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond, a benchmark for the industry, dropped to an all-time low of 5.58%. Experts, who predict that the good news for homeowners will continue in coming months, say most borrowers are opting for 30-year fixed loans, now averaging...
Many Gen Xers hail from middle class suburbia; many have college degrees, and many are financially aided by their parents. With the retirement of the baby boomers, some predict that these twentysomethings will ease out of Gen X with the same grace that the hippies assimilated into corporate America. Yet this demographic dominates every stereotype of Gen X. And it leaves us to wonder what about the rest of the generation? What about the segment that does not have Mom, Dad or a college degree to fall back...