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Likewise, the IPO market is firming. Insurance company Anthem went public a few weeks ago and has soared 37%. Weight Watchers went public in mid-November, and the stock is up 32%. Magma Design, a tech IPO, has soared 45%. "We haven't seen a string like that in a long time," says Linda Killian, analyst at Renaissance Capital. Sensing a buoyant market a few months out, billionaire investor Laurence Tisch at Loews Corp. just filed to sell shares of his Lorillard Tobacco in an IPO. He too is reading the tea leaves--and seeing good things...
...first drug-infusion pump, which enabled doctors to deliver steady, reliable doses to patients. In the years that followed, he invented the first portable insulin pump, the first portable dialysis machine and an array of heart stents, one of which now resides inside Vice President Dick Cheney. This string of successes established Kamen's reputation, made him wealthy and turned DEKA Research--the R.-and-D. lab he founded nearly 20 years ago, in which he and 200 engineers work along the banks of the Merrimack River--into a kind of Mecca for medical-device design...
...Where You Take Me,” her producers smother it with excessively jerky beats and incoherence. Perhaps her all-star cast of producers were too highly paid to be satisfied with a more subdued but smoother style. The Max Martin/Rami team that produced her previous string of hits is also responsible for the bulk of this album, but their gift for appealing to the masses has evaporated in the year between Spears’ previous album, Oops! I Did It Again and Britney...
...residents of and recent immigrants from Middle Eastern countries will receive either a letter or a personal visit from officials "asking" for any information on the al-Qaeda network or Osama bin Laden. In eastern Michigan, where as many as 560 men will be questioned, a string of legal challenges from local Arab community leaders and the ACLU leaves local police officers somewhat defanged. If respondents do not wish to be interviewed, one police chief acknowledged, the department will not insist...
...some allied commanders to warn that the Taliban was conserving its forces and artillery for a ferocious defense of their southern citadel. But it didn't come. As Pashtun opposition forces encircled the city, the Taliban mustered no more than sporadic skirmishing. That, and the week's long string of northern defeats, convinced anti-Taliban Pashtun that they could take down the core Taliban warriors in the south and persuade the rest to switch sides; the prospect of Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara fighters sweeping into Pashtun cities was far more harrowing to Taliban soldiers than was surrendering to their Pashtun...