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...healthy-living sector, owning companies like Whole Foods Market and even the controversial HerbaLife, a maker of nutrition and weight-loss products. He's not averse to financial, biotech or telecom stocks either, stretching the notion of eco-friendly. Last year he made a killing off a telecom stock, Redback. "They're helping networks to move data faster, reducing the use of paper," he says. By that measure, though, almost any Internet firm would pass muster...
...What happened during Redback Kilo Three's patrol is a war story the Australian Army would prefer to forget. During a gunfight many believe was the longest engagement by an SAS unit since the Vietnam war, the patrol's six members showed undoubted heroism. But their actions - which led to the deaths of those Afghan men - won no bravery awards. Instead they brought recriminations, investigations, and claims of command failures, insubordination, the killing of civilians, and the souveniring of trophies from the dead. Some troopers were disciplined, and the patrol leader resigned in disgust over what he believes...
...Taliban forces, and help eliminate them. The squadron won high praise from U.S. commanders, particularly for its role in locating and orchestrating an attack on a senior al-Qaeda leader. When Three Squadron replaced One Squadron in April 2002, its members felt they had much to live up to. Redback Kilo Three's first mission, in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, kept up the high standard. Led by a patrol sergeant with 12 years' experience in the regiment, the six men of RK3 were at their peak. Perhaps the only weak link was the sixth man on the patrol...
CANNIBALS Love hurts--and in some species, it kills. For the praying mantis and the Australian redback spider, it's boy meets girl, girl eats boy. But not until boy passes along his genes to the next generation. In the marine bristle worm, however, it's boy eats girl. The male guards the fertilized eggs until they hatch, and since the female dies after mating anyway, the male sometimes has her for supper. For species that have little chance of mating again, a parent offering itself as a last meal can be a bit of insurance that the offspring will...
...these new issues seem to jump solely because they list Cisco as a competitor in the prospectus! Brocade, which makes fiber-channel switches--something that has the look and feel of Cisco--jumped from 19 to 116 in five weeks after coming public on the back of this buzz. Redback, a high-speed broadband IPO with enough Cisco overlap to be cast as Junior, went from 23 to 163 in two months. But none of them can touch the run of Juniper Networks, a newly minted maker of next-generation routers. A direct competitor of Cisco's, it jumped from...