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Anyone who invested in the IPOs of companies making cigars, microbrews, bagels, theme restaurants or clothes in the past few years can recite similar tales of woe. He or she was buying when the smart money was selling. The basic rule of IPO investing is this: unless you have an inside edge, don't do it. If the Indians have made that any clearer, I'll root for them this year. Heck, why not? Their decline is just around the corner...
Physicists love nothing more than announcing a discovery that rewrites the textbooks--unless, perhaps, it's a discovery that rewrites two textbooks at once. That's evidently what happened last week at a scientific conference in Japan. An international team of 120 physicists reported that the neutrino, a subatomic particle long thought to be utterly without mass, actually weighs in at a tiny fraction of the mass of the electron (until now, the lightest particle known). For elementary-particle physicists, that means their most basic theories will have to be rewritten; for astronomers, it means that the missing "dark matter...
...flashes of light caused by fallout from rare but occasional collisions between neutrinos and water molecules. There were fewer flashes than expected from so-called muon neutrinos, suggesting that some of them had changed into another type, called tau neutrinos. Arcane theory dictates that neutrinos can't change form unless they have mass--though scientists can't say precisely what that mass...
...Unless we somehow get a handle on thisaffordability issue, I don't think we're going tobe able to get the kind of mix that we used tohave," Triantafillou says...
...Which leaves the President off the hook until January. Unless... "This puts the pressure squarely on Monica for now," says Tumulty. "If Starr can cut a deal with her and get her to talk, he has a shot at building a case this summer." The problem with that is that Monica Lewinsky, by herself, does not an airtight case make. It seems much more likely that Starr will wait it out -- and thus our long national nightmare has just gotten quite a bit longer...