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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1950, those three months have produced more market gains than the other nine months combined. And we're at it again. Since Oct. 31, the S&P 500 is up 5.2%, the Dow 5.2%, the NASDAQ composite a heady 19%. Yet many investors are sitting on the sidelines, waiting out the Y2K fiasco. (You know, mayhem that would make Moses proud when computers misread 00 as 1900 on Jan. 1.) Yes, stock prices could unravel if Y2Khaos really occurs, or if anything else for that matter ignites a panic. Can you say higher interest rates? But serious jitters seem...
Those familiar with previous accounts of the 1918 contagion (Richard Collier's The Plague of the Spanish Lady or Alfred Crosby's America's Forgotten Pandemic) may be surprised to learn that science has yet to discover what made that particular flu virus so deadly. Though no longer a threat, the mass killer is, so to speak, still at large...
Only a genetic "footprint" of that plague year has been found. Yet Kolata has made the most of the ongoing mystery. She has produced not only a chilling read but also a book that, like Paul de Kruif's classic Microbe Hunters, could jump-start a new generation of medical researchers...
...stickers from the Pokemon series. Kids here are very interested in collecting all 151 stickers--actually, obsessed is the word for it. I have seen so many uneaten pastries thrown away because youngsters buy the product just to get the sticker inside. Money and food are being wasted, and yet children aren't aware that they are doing anything wrong. HYUN JEE KIM, AGE 17 Seoul...
...same statins can reverse osteoporosis--at least in rats. New bone formation increased 50% in lab animals receiving statin drugs for a month, far exceeding the effect of today's osteoporosis options, such as hormone-replacement therapy and Fosamax. The true litmus test: trials on humans, which have yet to begin...