Word: suckers
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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...
...Dick Cheney is feeling "just great" after surgery b) The Brain Sucker is still hungry c) Another busy day of bringing dignity back to the White House d) George W. Bush's meeting with the Philly Phanatic...
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...