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...FIAT UNO Investigators have no doubt that a white Fiat Uno collided with the Mercedes near the tunnel entrance and thus played a role in the accident. Despite an intensive 10-month search for the Fiat, however, they have basically given up hope of finding it. The failure to identify the now legendary "second car" makes it impossible for investigators to establish its precise role--or definitively rule out the possibility that its driver was a photographer...
Psychologists can call off their century-long search for the key to rearing a good child--not because they've found it but because it doesn't exist. At least, that is the thesis of a soon-to-be-published, destined-for-controversy book, The Nurture Assumption (Free Press; 480 pages). Its author, Judith Rich Harris, states baldly that parents do not have "any important long-term effects on the development of their child's personality...
...video court ("Don't call the court 'Dude,'" he tells one youth). Brown, 51, grew up in South Central Los Angeles and has the fervor of a missionary, spouting buzz words like "com-mun-i-ty." His producers, like those for the other shows, scour court filings in search of camera-worthy cases with strong narratives, but Brown achieves extra conflict by pursuing civil actions that spring from criminal cases. "We're not really just small claims," he says. "We will be dealing with some very deep-level raw material." That does help make his show more exciting...
...tracker First Call. Meanwhile, market leaders still sport bubble-like P/Es: Coca-Cola, where unit sales are growing about 8% a year, has a P/E of 51. Microsoft's is 63; Cisco Systems', 78. High-flying Internet stocks have no P/E because they have no "E." Yahoo, the Net-search directory, trades at 73 times revenue. The comparable multiple for Coke...
...Amid the pandemonium in Nairobi, rescuers may have inadvertently destroyed the vital bits and shreds from which the experts reconstruct the bombs and their delivery vehicles that serve as a kind of fingerprint of the terrorists. The manhunt begins on hands and knees at the decimated sites as investigators search for telltale scraps and pass them along to high-tech analysts in Washington. Intelligence agents are already sweeping through phone intercepts and combing computer databases that list some 200,000 terrorist suspects and more than 3,000 groups...