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...first working laser (short for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), a coherent beam of electromagnetic energy produced by light waves traveling the same path. Today the devices are ubiquitous: guiding rockets for the military, cutting steel, unclogging arteries in the O.R.--and playing your favorite Radiohead CDs...
...says the bank, which beats the 3% yield on standard savings accounts. The downside: you're locked into that rate for three years. The coffee option, offered in 13 of Rabobank's member institutions in the Netherlands, pays out organic, Fair Trade coffee from Ethiopia, Honduras and Peru. Next: CDs that yield doughnuts...
...Coke team's surprise, "people were on talk shows saying, 'What does this mean?'," Orkina says. Coca-Cola moved fast to capitalize on the buzz. Teaming with record label BMG, which had found DJ Bobo, it slapped a Coke logo on CDs and started selling singles. The campaign spread to other markets. And Chihuahua mamboed to No. 2 on the pan-European Eurochart. The stealth marketing success of 2003 in the Netherlands, a TV show called 6Pack, is funded by Heineken, but you won't see its logo during the show. 6Pack, which ended its 100-episode run last week...
...Fleet Financial and HSBC, and of real estate investment trusts, including Vornado Realty and Health Care Properties. He likes junk-bond mutual funds, including Columbia High Yield and Northeast Investors. He also favors short-maturity bond funds (which yield just north of 1%) like Vanguard Short-Term Bond. Bank CDs are another alternative to money-market funds. Keep a mix of CDs that come due in three, six, 12 and 18 months. You can get 2% on a three-year CD, but you'll run the risk of locking in a historically low yield just as yields--and total returns...
...addition to about 165,000 reels of film, Widener’s new reading room includes “13 state-of-the-art reading scanners” with which patrons can view the archives, print them or burn them to CDs, said Marilyn D. Wood, Widener’s head of access services...