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Varminters argue that they help farmers and ranchers by killing pests that would otherwise die slowly from traps or poison. The V.H.A.'s president, Ned Kalbfleish, 50, says his critics are hypocrites who don't mind trapping mice or spraying roaches and yet threaten him with violence for stalking a creature he calls "the prairie rat." A Vietnam veteran and computer-systems analyst, Kalbfleish insists no amount of shooting can wipe out thriving prairie-dog populations, and he brands as "bad science" the Federal Government's efforts to list the creature as endangered...
...falling--a tepid showing that suggests this rally could fade like a suntan. Don't be fooled by the sharp gain. Since 1900, there have been 31 bear markets, and in 17 of them there was at least one suckers' rally greater than 10% on the Dow, according to Ned Davis Research. All but one had at least one 5% bounce. The typical bear market had five 5%-plus rallies followed by new lows...
There have been only four bear markets in the past two decades, and during each the Dow Jones industrial average declined 24% on average. But traditional defensive groups did better than that, according to a survey of 100 industry groups by Florida-based Ned Davis Research. Tobacco was down only 9%. Food producers dipped 12%, and grocery chains fell only 10%. Household-product companies dropped 15%. Drug stocks were off 19%. Electric utilities declined between 5.7% and 8.7%, depending on the region...
...becoming the Renee Fleming of mezzo-sopranos. Her starring role in the San Francisco Opera's upcoming premiere of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking will probably do the trick. So why not board the bandwagon early? Her new CD, a collection of 32 well-chosen art songs by Ned Rorem, is already a prime candidate for Best-of-2000 status. Graham's singing is smart and sumptuous, while Rorem's French-flavored songs--bittersweet, transparent, unsentimentally lyrical--are the best that any American classical composer has given...
...stranglehold of the "complexity boys" (as critic-composer Virgil Thomson called them) was challenged by such older American tonalists as David Diamond and Ned Rorem and weakened in the '80s by the deliberately repetitive music of Philip Glass and Steve Reich. But minimalism has proved too simple-minded to satisfy serious listeners hungry for accessible yet challenging new scores. Liebermann, Daniel Asia, Jorge Martin, Paul Moravec and George Tsontakis were among the first younger composers to snub its stuttering chatter in favor of a full-blooded style that is at once unmistakably contemporary (Liebermann, for instance, was influenced...