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BACK IN BUSINESS Some small-cap mutual funds that closed their doors when a surfeit of money made them hard to manage are open again--if you're game. Last week Fidelity said its Small Cap Stock and Low-Priced Stock funds will accept new investors, mostly because shareholders have been fleeing. Low-Priced's assets dropped from $12 billion to $7.8 billion in the past year. Small-cap stocks were hammered in general, making them something of a bargain...
...glut of architects. A surfeit of architects. Whatever the collective noun for architects is, there sure were a lot of them visiting the Graduate School of Design last week. Following Richard Meier earlier in the week, Renzo Piano, one of the world's foremost architects and the man responsible for the planned revamping of the Harvard University Art Museums, spoke to a packed Piper Auditorium last Thursday. Famous for his work in such major spaces as Houston's Menil Collection, Osaka's Kansai Airport and Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, Piano's speech attracted so large a crowd that...
CARVED IN STONE If you think only computers have a Year 2000 problem, think again. Gravestone carvers say there is a surfeit of headstones with 19-- carved on them. Apparently people ordered their markers, not expecting to out-live the 20th century. Many will. The good news? The stones can be restored...
...misery in California could extend all the way to fall. While the rest of the U.S., east of the Rockies, is sneezing on ragweed from mid-August to the first frost, Southern Californians are expected to suffer from a surfeit of sagebrush and Russian thistle. This year, says Berger, "it's only going to get worse. These are the kinds of plants that thrive in disturbed soil, as in mudslides, and we've certainly had a lot of those lately...
Traditional careers like academia and law have seen a surfeit of new entrants. With the crisis in health-care costs, even the stability of medicine as a career seems in doubt. And the perverse outcome of America's obsession with higher education has resulted in a race among all for post-baccalaureate credentials while primary and secondary schools in urban communities stagnate, restricting the pool of students qualified to apply to Harvard...