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Broderick filed a sexual-harassment complaint with the SEC head office. An internal investigation concluded in 1986 detailed five relationships involving men from upper management and lower-paid women, and said "drinking and sexual involvements among staff" often occurred in the regional office. But the panel rejected Broderick's claim that her career was threatened by the existence of such an atmosphere...
...long road to conception actually begins seven months before a woman is born, when microscopic eggs start to form in the buds that will become her ovaries. Unlike the testicles of a man, which continuously churn out sperm at the prodigious rate of 1,000 per sec. (30 billion a year), the ovaries never produce any new eggs. The eggs a woman is born with -- usually about 2 million -- are all she will ever have. By puberty, normal degeneration will have reduced that number to about 400,000. When the woman exhausts the supply, her ovaries will virtually shut down...
...Lewis didn't do it. If anyone might have been expected to break Beamon's record, Lewis was it. He is the king of track and field. Earlier last week Lewis proved he could still be the fastest human alive, when he set a new world record of 9.86 sec. to take the 100-m gold medal at the World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo. And even though the muggy, sea-level Japanese capital was hardly ideal for breaking the long-jump record, Lewis was going to try. In an astonishing series, he turned in the greatest sequence...
...SEC is seeking detailed information from all dealers, brokerages and commercial banks authorized to trade Treasuries, as well as from individual bond traders employed at those firms. The Treasury Department is re-examining the records of every auction since 1986, a total of more than 200, searching for evidence of collusion with customers to violate the 35% rule. Industry analysts expect only minor infractions to turn up. Still, says Howard Sirota, a New York City securities attorney, "this proves that the market isn't quite as pristine and squeaky clean as its participants would have us believe...
...does this sound as an exam question? A fifth-grader in San Diego County decided to figure out how far a ball would travel if it rolled down a ramp at a steady 5 ft. per sec. for a year (assuming that friction on the shallow incline counteracted the acceleration of gravity.) His work page is a maze of multiplication, punctuated by arrows explaining things like "Here I found out how many seconds there are in a year." His final answer -- 29,863 miles and 1,108.8 yds. -- is accompanied by a proud statement: "I chose this paper because...