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...particular, the Crimson (9-6-0, 9-2-0) has focused its last week of practice on turning shots into goals. Harvard has routinely outshot its opponents this season, usually at a ratio of nearly two-to-one, but that has not been enough to beat teams with good defenses and quality goaltenders...
...Depleted uranium is attractive to armorers because of its high ratio of mass to bulk, which gives it the ability to pierce heavy armor. The by-product of the fuel-enrichment process used by nuclear power stations, it contains fairly low doses of radiation, but is acknowledged to carry some risk of cancer and other ailments if directly ingested, inhaled or absorbed through cuts. That knowledge, and the circumstantial link between high rates of illness and service in territories where NATO has fired large amounts of depleted-uranium ordnance, is enough to have European NATO members demanding further discussion over...
...price. Investors who piled into hot sectors like technology without diversifying have been hit hardest in the recent market slide. And profligate lenders are getting hit in their bottom lines. Four times as many companies saw their credit ratings downgraded last year as saw them upgraded--the worst ratio since the recession year...
There are plenty of stocks that still carry obscenely high prices relative to their expected earnings. Internet infrastructure kingpin Cisco Systems, for example, has seen its share price cut by more than half over the past year, to $38, but it still carries a forward P/E ratio of 47 vs. a 21 P/E ratio for the overall market. Yet Cisco's earnings this year are expected to grow by only 28%. There are far more attractively priced tech stocks: for example, Dell, expected to grow earnings at 21% and selling at a P/E of 16, or WorldCom, which...
...caution to rocket scientists who still think it's cool to e-mail nudie pics to the guys at work: watch out for PORNSweeper. This menacingly named software scans image files on company servers, looking for such clues as a suspicious abundance of pink pixels. It even measures the ratio of skin color to other colors to estimate how much clothing the image contains. The software, which developer Content Technologies markets to corporate technology departments, also includes "face detection," so close-ups won't be mistaken for pinups. Still, you may want to refrain from sending baby pictures...