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...getting close to a blue-light special now. Maybe. Remember, though, that bargain hunting around the March-May sell-off rewarded only a few while ravaging many. Electric utilities, oil and some financial and left-for-dead health-care stocks have done well. But that's not where the money was. Popular techland has been a disaster. Last week the NASDAQ yo-yo busted its string and fell to a new low for the year, extending a slump in the most speculative stocks and grounding the likes of Intel, Dell, Cisco and Lucent...
MYTH 2 The essay counts only in close calls...
...football and guitar as his only extracurriculars, Comeback Kid would normally have missed Bowdoin's first cut of applications. But in his essay he wrote of how he'd spent those first two years of high school "slowly poisoning myself in a pool of malted hops." Then a close relative who was an alcoholic died of a stroke. After that, Comeback Kid cut out the beer, got A-pluses in his senior year and won a national writing award. He also won a unanimous thumbs-up for admission...
...such close calls can just as easily swing the other way. Bowdoin's committee was ambivalent about one applicant until it read a last-minute addition to his file, a note saying, "Bowdoin College is at the top of my list." He was admitted...
This week or next, a Tift County man, woman or child will close a book, pass a test and push the point total over a million. Because primary schoolers have read so many 1/2-point books, the points translate to roughly 1 million books...