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...stocks tumble? In retrospect, it seems clear that as they were hitting their highs, speculation had taken over. The average Net stock had risen 475% in the previous six months. Internet initial public offerings were routinely doubling and tripling on the first trade. A pullback was in order...
...which a supposedly gay soldier was bludgeoned to death in his barracks. And if that was a relatively isolated incident, there?s plenty of argument over whether the "Don?t ask, don?t tell" policy has made the situation better of worse. Discharges due to sexual orientation have risen every year since its implementation, from a low of 617 in 1994 to 1,145 last year. Pentagon officials respond that the increase is due instead to voluntary declarations of homosexuality by men and women who simply wanted to get out of the military, and claim that investigative abuses...
...some extent, the industry is trying to wriggle out of a trap of its own making. Competition has knocked down interest rates, and thus more people can pay down debt. Annual interest income has grown from $52 billion in '96 to $58 billion last year, while charges have risen twice as fast, from $798 billion to $975 billion. In March consumers repaid some 15% of their outstanding balances, a 10-year record, according to Moody's Investors Service. "Since they can't get it at the front end, they get it at the back end," says Robert McKinley...
...land where "better, faster, cooler" products are a national obsession. But frankly, the Japanese are not enjoying the financial ride they are on at this moment. Since the start of the year, Japan's Nikkei index has gone up nearly 30%. (In the U.S., the Dow has risen 19%.) The country's economy, which had been given up for dead by most of the world's leading economists, astonished analysts with a first-quarter annualized growth rate--nearly 8%--that is almost three times what the U.S. will likely manage in this fairly sizzling year. And global investors, feeling some...
...Strikers are a travel team--sometimes known as a select or club team--comprising kids who have risen through local soccer squads to be selected for more competitive play. They're drawn from a variety of mostly suburban neighborhoods and towns in a given region, and they will make single-day or weekend-long pilgrimages to meet other similarly skilled teams on distant soccer fields. Their coaches are not volunteer dads but traveling professionals, some of them imported from countries like Britain. Kelly's parents will pay roughly $3,000 a year for her soccer experience, including club dues (which...