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After finishing his doctorate, Pons was able to make up for lost time, becoming chairman of the Utah chemistry department in 1988. Along the way he earned a reputation for diligence and creativity. Says Harry Mark, Pons' adviser at Michigan: "Stan was innovative and controversial even back in grad school. What he's doing now doesn't surprise...
...marketplace being a multilayered and ever more convoluted place, there are newsletters that devote themselves solely to scrutinizing other newsletters' performances. Stan Weinstein, who edits the Professional Tape Reader, is still bleeding from one such analysis, in which the writer likened his record to that of the Suzuki Samurai. "Stan's not always right," he tells his audience. "I'm not saying, 'Follow me across the river, this is Moses.' " He just wants them to think with him. What he thinks about are the elaborate, hand-drawn charts that fill his filing cabinets and cover every wall of his office...
Weinstein is a popular speaker, a motormouth with a New York City accent and a concise choreography of hand and facial expression to convey such messages as "gedoutta-heah-gimme-a-break." He wears tailored suits and a gold bracelet with STAN spelled in diamonds. His admirers are legion. "I'd be lying if I said I didn't love it," he says. "One time we were flying in from Europe, and we had 40 minutes to get through Customs at Kennedy and make our next flight. The Customs man said, 'Are you Stan Weinstein? I saw you on Wall...
...crowd picks through the offerings carefully, learning something about what makes Al Frank and Stan Weinstein and possibly also the market tick. They search for revealing new indicators or for an unknown face who has it all figured out (a hidden imam, in the jargon). They browse among new ideas, like one newsletter's espousal of the "butterfly effect," the chaos theory that a hurricane in the Caribbean may be caused by an unknown butterfly flapping its , wings six months earlier somewhere in Brazil, and that, by analogy, there are no hidden imams because it's all too complicated...
...curb the violence, officials have been advocating steps that may verge on martial law. A federal judge last week blocked on constitutional grounds implementation of an 11 p.m. curfew for minors. New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman suggested putting the city's 4,000 beleaguered police under federal control. Congressman Stan Parris, a Virginia Republican, drafted legislation to appoint a federal public-safety administrator. There were even cries for deployment of federal troops or National Guardsmen...