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...straight years, every time the stock market has taken a hit, you've made big money if you jumped in with both feet. A "buy the dips" philosophy has outperformed any other strategy imaginable. When will this faultless method let us down? When should we be scared to take advantage of a swoon and instead take a powder and lock in the gains of the greatest bull market of all time? Oddly, we have the answer. It's just been obscured by the big event known as the Crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STICK WITH THE DIPS | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...different forms that electronica can take on. Although Moby isn't quite as well known as some other dance/techno icons, he is undoubtedly one of the best musicians because one can hear traces of his stylistic elements in acts such as Orbital, the Prodigy, Underworld and the Crystal Method. I Like to Score is an album that is easy to listen to and can also serve as a primer for the listener to experience different types of techno music...

Author: By Angela M. Munoz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Great White Hope | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

Whatever the precise method, the goal would be to make sure that candidates have ample access to public funds. But they must also remain free to raise private funds so long as these funds are fully and immediately disclosed. Public funding should function not as a ceiling but a floor...

Author: By Ira Carnihan, | Title: Floors Without Ceilings | 10/9/1997 | See Source »

...there are shortcomings to this method, Vonnegut is fully aware of them. Throughout the book, he freely admits that he possesses neither the patience nor the desire to create three-dimensional characters. "If you create a character," he explained at the Brattle, "he's going to use up the whole book. You'll never get to talk." He attributes his historically lukewarm critical reception to this anti-character prejudice (and to his stubborn refusal to use semicolons). Basically, he doesn't care. He wants to talk, and he wants his voice to be heard...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kilgore Was Here | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...successful remains to be seen. A healthy stock market has given Shaman a total value of more than $100 million and a two-year cash reserve, but the company is gambling on a drug-development tactic that hinges on the relief of disease symptoms rather than on causes--a method shunned by most drug companies. Critics say it is akin to using a cork to turn off a faucet without knowing how faucet knobs work. "There is an inherent risk," admits Conte. "But that lets us discover new ways that medicines can work because we're not constrained by known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY THAT GROWS ON TREES | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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