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...global turmoil was legendary Wall Street investor Michael Steinhardt, who as of last week has lost $1 billion since the beginning of the year, or a quarter of the funds under his management. Another big-name investor, George Soros, got caught in the February mayhem, which people inside his Quantum hedge fund called the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre." Soros lost $600 million on Feb. 14 by wrongly betting that the U.S. dollar would rise against the yen. (Don't cry for Soros, though. He reportedly earned $650 million in 1992 and at least as much last year, eclipsing Michael...
...teachings are sheer fantasy, unsubstantiated by any credible evidence: ancient Egyptians mastered flight with gliders, which they used for both recreation and travel. They invented electric batteries and mastered electroplating, discovered the principles of quantum mechanics and anticipated Darwin's theories of evolution. Furthermore, all Egyptians were black, and their abundance of the dark skin pigment, melanin, not only made them more humane and superior to lighter-skinned people in body and mind but also provided such paranormal powers as ESP and psychokinesis...
...Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) was billed by physicists as their giant microscope to observe the fundamental particles of matter, a tool that would lead to the greatest progress in physics since quantum mechanics...
Instead, the reason for the quantum leap in WFW's version number is that Microsoft wants to keep its products consistent across all platforms, including the version numbers as well as each program's look and fell. Since the Mac upgrade of Word will be called version 6, WFW skipped a few generations to become "Word for Windows...
...Beta Kappa physics concentrator, said he will study quantum optics at Imperial College of Science and Technology of the University of London...