Word: avoiding
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...Stephen King premiered his most recent story, Riding the Bullet, exclusively on the Net, causing a near meltdown of the computers that served it up to more than 500,000 people the first day. His experiment proved a point: the middleman is endangered. If you're unknown, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to get discovered and attain stardom. And if you're already a star, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to keep most of the money yourself. "It's like putting a nickel into the world's biggest slot machine...
...hand-ful of peanuts, had large, saucer-like eyes and flitted about the treetops of humid Asian rain forests on feet no bigger than rice grains. Shy nocturnal creatures, they snapped up insects and nectar as quickly as their tiny bodies could digest them, all the while trying to avoid becoming a meal themselves for nightly predators such as owls. Meet Eosimias, the "dawn monkey"--what some experts are calling the primate equivalent of the missing link...
...forget your 401(k). View tax-deferred and taxable accounts as one big portfolio. If you can reduce your tech exposure enough just by moving funds in your tax-deferred accounts, you'll avoid taxes and maybe commissions...
...jump-start a new round of Israel-Syria talks. The President, like many who've tried before, found that the disagreement over the extent of Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights remains too fundamental to allow any movement. And while the two neighbors have for 26 years managed to avoid a war despite the absence of such an agreement, the latest impasse, together with the Israeli decision to withdraw from southern Lebanon - a promise that helped Barak get elected - has the potential to spark a new round of hostilities...
...Syria are likely to be careful to keep any escalation of hostilities within manageable limits. "Assad appears uninterested in peace on the terms Israel has offered," says Beyer. "But that doesn't mean he wants a war, and he'll work as hard as the Israelis will to avoid being drawn into...