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...there are now 60 ETFs with a market value of $46 billion--triple the assets in these funds just two years ago. Vanguard has promised an array of competing ETFs, to be called Vipers; and Merrill Lynch has entered the tradable-funds sweepstakes with HOLDRs (Holders). Again, you pay a sales commission, but the management fee is minimal, and waived altogether if not covered by dividends paid by companies in the portfolio. The basic HOLDR consists of 20 stocks targeting, say, the Internet, biotech or banking industry...
...arch as always, rolling up all the drumbeat stuff and depositing it in the belly of a national poll story, which leads smug. "George W. Bush holds a modest lead over Al Gore but a striking array of strategic advantages as unified Republicans flock here to launch their drive to retake the White House." The lead...
Which is not to say differences are not appreciated. During activities that range from beach volleyball and Ping-Pong to yoga, one notices a wide array of physiques--the good, the bad, the ugly and the very ugly. But that's O.K. "The whole resort is geared to living completely in the nude without embarrassment," an Irishman explains to me. "The experience is much more sensual than sexual...
...lifetime of journalism, I have interviewed an impressive array of f---ing idiots. An equal number of people, as I walked away from interviewing them, have said, or thought, about me: "What a f---ing idiot...
Those sequences are so useful, in fact, that researchers started tapping into the data long before they were complete. Scientists at drug firms, biotech companies and university labs have taken literally hundreds of baby steps into the era of genomic medicine using an impressive array of powerful new tools: DNA chips and microarrays that let scientists see at a glance which of thousands of genes are active in a given tissue sample; sophisticated software that can organize gigabytes of genetic data; huge databases of genes, disease-tissue samples and mRNA--the molecules that initiate the actual construction of working proteins...