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Usually I'm a sucker for the slippery-slope argument. On cloning, I'm in favor of ending it now before we have three grandmothers at Thanksgiving dinner, all faintly resembling Martha Stewart. On privacy, you don't have to be Ray Bradbury to be concerned that soon every membrane will be permeable by some gadget recording, taping, filming or just watching you. Coloradans are no doubt pleased that the state plans to start using three-dimensional "face recognition" photos for driver's licenses in order to prevent identity-theft crimes. Yet states sometimes sell their databases to anyone...
MOBILE POPS Even lollipops are switching to cell phones. Chupa Chups packages a retractable sucker inside a faux mobile phone that functions as a calculator, so kids can add up all those empty calories...
...wouldn't jump into the market with a single leap just now. That would risk making a large bet at what might be the top of another sucker's rally. So go slow. Invest at regular intervals with the goal of having any cash earmarked for stocks in place by year's end. That ensures you won't jump in at just the wrong time and increases the odds of buying at rock bottom--a moment clear only in hindsight...
...bear market should have been obvious to anyone who made an effort to keep up with what was happening in the securities industry [BUSINESS, March 26]. Most stocks are little more than overvalued gambling chips that do nothing for the stockholder unless he can sell them to another sucker for a price higher than he paid. He's like a victim in a pyramid scheme. The guys who are really raking it in are the corporate CEOs and their colleagues. MANI DELI Toronto...
...forget those champagne wishes and caviar dreams, the right car, vodka, watch, cuisine and music system. Consumers no longer feel they absolutely must have the latest luxury product. Who would be impressed, anyway? ''People don't think being square is synonymous with being a sucker anymore,'' says Dan Fox, marketing planning director of the Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency. Besides, they no longer seem to get a kick from spending borrowed money. Consumer installment credit dropped $342 million in December, or 0.6%, in what would ordinarily have been a busy shopping season, and a huge $2.4 billion in January...