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...presidential candidates, you want to spend more money on education? You won't get many arguments - as long as the cash is flowing into teachers' salaries or textbook purchases, and not into the black hole of high-tech educational tools. That's the word from the Alliance for Childhood, a consortium of early development and education experts, which issued a report Tuesday that sketches a speculative link between increasingly wired classrooms and the rising incidence of childhood obesity and social detachment...
MARK JAKOB Nabbed for fake press release that nuked Emulex stock. The tech firm bounced back
Ranson agrees that a defensive investment strategy--which would include large-cap tech and drug stocks--is best if you're planning to stay in the market. But he advises being very cautious as the recent rate hikes filter down. With the Dow down for the year, NASDAQ basically flat and the S&P up only 2.5%, Ranson says investors may get better overall returns from cash rather than stocks. His suggestion: wait until 2001 to invest more heavily, or at least until there's solid evidence that the Fed's moves have actually succeeded in cooling the economy...
...century, there were perhaps half a million of them divided into hundreds of tribes, speaking mutually unintelligible languages, thinly scattered across the vast hot skin of Australia. They lived by hunting and gathering. These seminomads were, even by the lowest standards of Africa or the Americas, almost incredibly low tech. They had fire, sticks and stones, and little else. Yet their traditional oral culture is of great antiquity; their structure of myth is remarkably coherent and continuous across millenniums, not just centuries; and, as anyone can see who visits some of the sacred cave sites scattered across northwestern Australia, their...
...fact, things are looking up. The Fed is on the sidelines. Election years are historically upbeat ones on Wall Street. Sure, the tech sector's still a minefield, but the usual safe plays, like Thursday's trio, are still reliable...