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Although gaggles of girls go for heroine and princess gear, some youngsters, like Radhika Garland, tried to be creative. While browsing at Boston Costume, she decided to dress up as "an Amazon because it's something new. I'm always a witch." An amazon? The river, perhaps, or maybe the Imax movie. Alessandra Davin initially planned on being a hippie, and then the devil, but ultimately settled on "Dracula...because...um...I just thought of it." Clever! While all frightening characters were moderately popular, the Scream-murderer attire proved to be a particular favorite. Marta Bezoari said she wanted...
Wall Street swings to extremes in a flash. For years portfolio managers have worried about the spectre of runaway inflation, as employment and incomes threatened to power into sixth gear. Now, after a summer of turbulence, they have become convinced that the economy won't weather the quick downshift. They are jettisoning the stocks and bonds of any companies that could stumble if the decade-old expansion turns to recession. But what happens if that severe slowdown doesn't hit? What if the Fed won't let it happen and moves aggressively to cut rates? Then Wall Street will have...
Every team hopes to have that game going into a big tournament--the game where everything clicks, the team gels, kicks it into a higher gear, brings everything together, opens the proverbial can of whoop...
...fastest-growing sector of the computer market, and last year Big Blue undertook the most extensive consumer-research campaign in ThinkPad's six-year history to try to figure out who's buying them. It discovered a new class of information worker: mobile folks who buy their own gear. These consumers work at small start-ups. They're college students. They're even people who like to telecommute, but from the sofa rather than the home office. Some 30% of laptop purchases will be made by these people during the upcoming year, according to IBM. Price, for them...
...remarkable British novelist Patrick O'Brian. This, his beguiled readers could argue, demeans not O'Brian but the lists. To O'Brian loyalists--readers and re-readers, hangers-about on the O'Brian website, buyers of O'Brian calendars, dictionaries, three-cornered hats (a lie) and period foul-weather gear (another)--what might be open to dispute is whether to reserve, say, one slot high on a new "greatest" roster, or 18 or 20 places very close...