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Forget all the griping about money and the lack thereof, and forget for a moment that the U.S. Ryder Cup team has in recent years been the most consistently underachieving group in sport. Remember instead the victory, the largest comeback in Ryder Cup history that gave the U.S. team its first championship since 1993. Down 10-6 going into the final day in Brookline, Mass., the American players won their first six matches easily and clinched when Justin Leonard's putt on 17 assured the U.S. team of 14 1/2 points, just enough...
...recent years, the business of Hollywood and the entertainment industry has almost become as fascinating as the creative output itself. You might see a doctor reading Daily Variety on the T, or perhaps a teenager memorizing the new Billboard magazine. And for some odd reason, box office grosses are fodder for everyday conversation. Why the urgent desire to go behind the scenes...
...suddenly they feel very overweighted in dollar assets." That means dollars and U.S. equities are getting dumped for yen and Japanese ones. If it keeps up, the Dow could easily dip below that vaunted 10,000 sometime this fall, but Baumohl doesn?t see the end of the U.S.? recent golden age. "I still don?t think the Fed is going to raise rates," he says, "and the economy is still fundamentally very solid." And what if the Fed does raise rates, slowing down the economy and letting still more air out equities? Put the porridge in the fridge...
...Dowell. "Cracking down too hard right now may actually trigger more secessionist activity, and the Indonesian military has a very sophisticated approach to dealing with these things. It?s also not a monolith ? it's generals who come together in competing coalitions. If there is a backlash against the recent humiliations suffered by the military, it may come in the form of a barely perceptible internal reorganization rather than an overt crackdown on the streets." With the country due to seat its new parliament next week and begin the process of choosing a new president, Indonesia?s short-term political...
...childhood disease: measles, polio and tetanus/diphtheria. That?s up from 76.2 percent only four years ago. The downside, of course, lies in the remaining 19.4 percent of toddlers who have thus far eluded authorities. Although Walter Orenstein, director of the CDC?s National Immunization Program, is pleased with recent immunization efforts, he is worried about the kids who are falling through the cracks. "Between state and federal programs, the vaccines are out there, but there is a lot to be done in keeping track of kids? vaccine schedules and just getting them in there," Orenstein told the Associated Press...