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...distinctly unsexy business of growing cabbages and other produce and selling packaged vegetables such as boiled corn. Yet Hong Kong retail investors put in orders for nearly $4 billion of its stock, acting as if this tiny firm with about 150 employees is destined to become a global titan. In the short term, such suspension of disbelief can be highly profitable, but it can also prove to be an excellent way of losing money fast. "I warn investors to be cautious," says Joseph Lau, a director at Tai Fook Asset Management. "Some of the investors will ultimately be burned...
...landing of Pathfinder on Mars in the summer of 1997 was the closest I've seen to people really gathering around TVs and being as excited as they were in the 1960s. There is potential for that feeling to return this summer, when the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrives at Titan, a moon circling Saturn...
...expanded its chain of Westside retail stores, which stock perfume, crockery and Westside's brand of upmarket clothing. Sales were up 33% last year, helping his case as unofficial front runner to succeed Ratan in 2008. Noel was also recently appointed to the boards of Titan, the Tata watchmaking unit, and Voltas, an air-conditioning giant...
...suppose, in a parallel universe, that the Ivy Champion did go to the playoffs. And suppose that—still suspending belief here—one season that team was Yale. The big Bulldogs, going up against a D-I AA titan like Southern Illinois...
...that they lack clout. By beating CBS, the network's foes helped themselves--online muckraker Matt Drudge modestly declared on MSNBC that the incident marked "the beginning of a second media century." But their defense of Reagan was at best contradictory and at worst insulting: 1) Reagan is a titan who saved America and freedom; 2) Reagan is a poor 92-year-old man with Alzheimer's. That is, he is either too great or too pitiable to be treated for what he is, a figure of history who belongs to all of us. Surely the spirit...