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...claims were up 27% over the same period last year. Securities attorney Jim Shapiro has landed 70 "slam-dunk" cases since running newspaper ads in March that asked, "Have you lost more than $100,000 in NASDAQ stocks?" His argument is simple: even if customers clamored for more tech, their brokers had a responsibility to apply the brakes...
While failure to diversify left many Americans with too much tech exposure, brokers often gave them fair warning. If you listed your initial investment objectives as "speculative" or received a call or letter from the brokerage firm stating that your portfolio had entered Riskville, "then you're S.O.L.," says Bortner, president of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA). "People need to take responsibility for their actions...
...starting to take notice, though. Last month, after someone left a message identifying a schoolgirl and threatening to rape her, anonymous callers tipped off police, who immediately surrounded the girl's school in Ibaraki prefecture. Fortunately, this one turned out to be a sick prank. Most prefectures have high-tech departments dealing with Internet and related crimes. But it's difficult to catch the author of an anonymous message if the bulletin board is accessed through a public computer. "Sometimes all we can do is advise the callers about how to protect themselves," says Masao Tatsuzaki, life division officer...
...pearl harbor, make sure to do so when it opens at your local theater. Not because it's a great film, which (though I'm no movie critic) it isn't, but because after spending more than two hours watching a sappy love story bracket a burst of high-tech pyrotechnics, you can reflect on the deep grip that World War II continues to have on our imagination...
...Like Silicon Valley, Marseilles is proving high quality of life is conducive to industrial innovation and wealth creation," says Guy Guistini, managing director of the Provence Promotion agency, which leads Marseilles' drive to bring high-tech and other fast-growing businesses to the area. The effort is paying off. Last year Marseilles and its region led the nation in foreign investment for the first time - even outdistancing its traditional rival, the capital. "The habit of Paris luring the best companies and skilled workers out of the provinces is reversing," Guistini says...