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...ANALYSTS HAVE GOT REAL They've slashed earnings forecasts. Now weak results get a positive spin. J.P. Morgan and Apple, for instance, last week reported steep earnings declines that topped expectations and rallied...
...blame OPEC - at least not completely. The oil-producer cartel hasn't stuck with its pledge to cut production by 1.5 million barrels a day in March, and analysts don't expect the 1 million-barrel reduction promised for April to be as steep as advertised either. Crude oil inventories in the U.S. are up nearly 5 percent from a year ago, to 313 million barrels - but gasoline inventories stand at 192.8 million barrels, a drop of 6.2 percent from this time last year and the lowest springtime level since...
...Certainly the curve has a steep slope from 1960 to 1970, even taking the 1966-1967 discontinuity into account. But black students did not appear in significant numbers on the Harvard campus until 1970, and the period from 1970 through 1985 was the only 15-year period in the past 80 years in which there was no increase in grades at Harvard...
...Hold on!" yells Rhonda Stelmach as she guns her four-wheeler up a hill on her 300-acre ranch near Boerne, Texas. Limestone rocks fly as the ATV chews up the steep slope. Ahead of her, a pair of African gemsbok antelope are running. At the summit, she pauses to drink in the view--and the silence--while the gemsboks peer at her from behind a live oak. "It was their hill before, but now we all share," she says, pointing out the sable and red lechwe antelope hiding nearby...
...weekend warriors who find themselves a little weak on those really steep hills, electric bikes are the perfect answer. You can pedal until you start to poop out, then with the flick of a switch you can give your tired legs a boost from a battery-powered electric motor like the one found in a blender. (The motor works only when you're pedaling, so you're not cheating totally.) Or, if you want to bike to work but don't like to show up for your morning meeting in full sweat, electric bikes can make the ride easier...