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...also get word on the housing sector via housing starts. Barron?s frontman Alan Abelson got stomachs clenched everywhere this weekend by declaring an imminent bubble in the sector everybody thanks for keeping consumers spending this long. Then it turned out he was just talking about homebuilding stocks like Centex shedding a few bucks "in the years ahead." Not to denigrate the value of that (probably accurate) insight to Centex investors or other housing-watchers, but we?ve got bigger, more imminent fish to fear. Also Thursday: Weekly jobless claims, and a fresh four-week rolling average that will hopefully...
...these are terrestrial and mundane risks. Sharks lurk in the vast, mysterious ocean, an element that still stirs mythic fear. Science is shedding light on why sharks behave the way they do. Researchers are tracking sharks via satellites and coming closer to understanding why they attack humans. The three large sharks that account for most attacks on people--the great whites, the tigers and the bull sharks--have been studied extensively. We now know that great white sharks keep their blood warmer than the surrounding water, that tiger sharks do not return to the site of an attack to prey...
...Vang Viang, in central Laos?about six hours by plodding diesel bus from Vientiane?it had taken four pipes for Fitz to get high. Seven, and he would begin to drift into his own subconscious, as though he were the director of his own pipe dreams. He had come via Thailand from Toronto, where he had been laid off from an Internet magazine. Now, after a month in town, it took a dozen pipes to get to that blissful nodding state, and if he didn't come down to see the dragon at least once a day, he knew...
This spring the University instituted a new process by which a PIN can be requested via a secure delivery system using email in addition to the traditional means of receiving a new PIN by mail. Both can be requested at www.pin.harvard.edu...
...Omen A British company has invented a toilet, the Versatile Interactive Pan, that can analyze urine and stool samples?and notify a doctor of any problems via e-mail...