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This isn't the dicey game of timing it may seem. For example, you can guard against missing a quick recovery by buying another depressed stock in the same industry. Sell Halliburton, down 41%, to lock in the tax benefits; then buy rival Schlumberger, down about 30%. Likewise, swap Philip Morris for RJR, AMR for Northwest, Caterpillar for Deere...
...year later, a lifetime's worth of family tragedies (plus several roommate conflicts) left me bitter and exhausted. The last thing I wanted to do was have to deal with people, much less perform community service, but anything was better than going home. So I applied to be the Philip Brooks House (PBH) summer receptionist, and thankfully received the job. It was basically a secretary's position and ranged from calming down campers' irate parents on the phone to fighting daily with the 200-year-old fax machine. While I met an endless number of truly amazing people, developed...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt
...some traceless way, through some unfindable hole in time, childhood vanishes. That's the haunting, unstated theme of this extraordinarily good first novel. The title is a child's way of saying "odyssey," and the voyage at the novel's core is that of 13-year-old Philip Shumway. One ordinary summer afternoon, Ethan, Philip's much loved elder brother, walks away from their house and is never seen again. The Shumways--Philip, three sisters and their parents--track him separately into obsession. Philip's childhood is burned away, cauterized, by the loss, and the half-formed man whose personality...
...deteriorating. Other stops ranged from the New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison came up with more than half of his 1,093 patented inventions, and where 5 million documents, including lab notes and letters, are rotting, to a Pittsfield theater that once saw performances by Sarah Bernhardt and John Philip Sousa but now houses a funky paint store...