Word: returning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fidelity's Magellan fund was supposed to have become too big to manage. But after stumbling for a couple of years, the nation's largest mutual fund is reasserting itself. Last year the tech-heavy fund, run by Robert Stansky, beat the soaring S&P 500 with a 33% return. In February, Magellan pulled in nearly $500 million from investors, its highest monthly net in more than three years, according to Alpha Equity Research. So is bigger better again? No, says a study by Financial Research: in any given fund category, smaller funds generally beat bigger ones...
...studies show that some HIV stubbornly hides from the drugs' reach, early evidence suggests that these sequestered strains may not be infectious. Drug holidays--brief respites from the grueling and complex medication regimen--are also being studied, since some patients who have voluntarily stopped their therapy have experienced no return of symptoms...
...look like other planes. One of the industry's most innovative and influential designers, Rutan has built a pressurized gondola for a round-the-world balloon attempt, a rigid winglike sail for an America's Cup winner, GM's Ultralight show car and the X-38 NASA crew-return vehicle. He is now testing his most exotic craft yet, the asymmetrical twin-engined Boomerang, designed to prevent instability should one engine fail. And he has set his sights on the $10 million X-PRIZE for the first private spaceship to carry three passengers to sub-orbital altitude, land safely...
...Hungarian accent, "My mind is open." For a day, or a week or a month, the man or woman who answered the knock would have to take nonstop care of this helpless guest who couldn't figure out how to cut a grapefruit or wash his underwear--and in return would be permitted the exhausting, exhilarating experience of following the thought processes of Paul Erdos, the most prolific and arguably the cleverest mathematician of the century...
...have. The airplane revolutionized both peace and war. It brought families together: once, when a child or other close relatives left the old country for America, family and friends mourned for someone they would never see again. Today, the grandchild of that immigrant can return again and again across a vast ocean in just half a turn of the clock. But the airplane also helped tear families apart, by making international warfare an effortless reality...