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...course it's too early to predict the precise convention choreography that will be adopted by the Democratic image makers, but don't be surprised if there's more than a dose of Old Time religion. Made all the more incongruous, perhaps, by the fact that the whole shebang is going down in the precincts of Hollywood, which Lieberman has regularly joined the Christian right in denouncing as the most morally disreputable of Democratic strongholds...
Perhaps tired of trying to pick sectors that will be Web winners, some investors and venture capitalists think they have found a way to bet the whole shebang--optical networking. That's the business of sending digital information via light waves rather than electronic signals, and it has emerged as the latest, greatest Internet investing trend. Which means that companies involved in any phase of optical networking have become hot stocks. Component makers, such as JDS Uniphase and Corning, and system designers, such as Juniper and Ciena, are each up more than 50% this year. Last Friday, despite a vicious...
...Earth?" (Leon is such a firm believer in this danger that the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him.) David Bjerklie and Unmesh Kher made sure the answers really were as smart as they seem. We were also fortunate to enlist Timothy Ferris (author of The Whole Shebang) and Matt Ridley (The Red Queen...
Timothy Ferris is the author of The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report and the PBS special Life Beyond Earth
...business tycoons like Lufkin and Schwab, columnist Robert Novak, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and smaller fry like Evans. Names are required to risk their entire personal wealth when they back Lloyd's policies in exchange for the right to a slice of underwriting profits. Atop the whole shebang sits the Council of Lloyd's, a ruling body of 18 exchange members who regulate the market...