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...Carpenter Center featured a collection of the inventor's works last fall. And in 1982, the Boston Museum of Science displayed a full exhibit of his inventions, which include car mirrors that eliminate blind spots, roller skates that can be used on rough surfaces and flying windmills...
During the past year, the price of oil has been on a roller-coaster ride that has taken it from $25 a bbl. down to below $10 and then back up to almost $18. But the wild ride appears to be over for the time being, much to the relief of producers and consumers alike. When Treasury Secretary James Baker met with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Mohammed Ali Abdul Khail in Khail's country last week, the two finance officials seemed to think that worldwide crude prices had finally settled at a mutually agreeable level. The current price still provides...
...statistical trends hardly explained Wall Street's loony rise and fall. The main cause of the fierce roller-coaster ride was the volume of buy and sell orders triggered by computer-driven trading programs at major investment houses. When market prices reach prescribed levels, the so-called program traders can blitz the market in seconds with orders representing many thousands of shares of a broad spectrum of stocks. On Friday morning those orders seemed merely to be building on the previous day's historic 51-point climb. The driving force behind that record-breaking market rush, says Richard McCabe...
...would have written if he had grown up in the Bronx and been named Blumberg. It treads on ground that we seen many times before: the Berger apartment on the Grand Concourse looks just like Neil Simon's place in Brighton Beach, Woody Allen's old home under the roller coaster at Coney Island, and even Alexander Portnoy's house of horrors in Newark. But this is not nostalgia; the fuzzy sentimentalism of memory is replaced here with a genuine anger, and even a trace of contempt...
MINUTES LATER, IT happened. There was a sudden jolt and the shrill screech of breaking wheels amid screams and falling luggage. One encountered what can only be described as a violent roller coaster ride with intense vibration and heavy rumbling as metal grated on gravel...