Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Last week it was reported that aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is sponsoring a study that pays volunteers $1,000 apiece to ingest perchlorate--a pollutant found in rocket fuel--every day for six months...
...This week the SPICE GIRLS' not-so-anticipated comeback album slid to No. 108 on the charts after debuting last month...
GIVE IT UP With tech funds down more than 20% on average, 2000 is a good bet to be the first time in 15 years that the funds lose money. After NASDAQ hit bottom last week, a spate of brokerages issued pleas to stubborn tech-boom day traders to give in and learn to invest rather than just trade. Hot but stable sectors being championed include pharmaceuticals and municipal bonds...
TIME TO BUY THE FARM If you've been waiting for the real estate frenzy to die down before buying a home, now may be the time. Last week a booming bond market combined with a depressed housing market to push 30-year-mortgage rates to a 17-month low. After spending most of the year above 8%, including a stretch in May when rates hit a five-year high of 8.64%, rates slid to as low as the mid-6% area, with no major uptick in sight...
Reasonable people may differ about the scientific value of NASA's much delayed INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, and starting this week, you can take a look skyward and judge for yourself. The station was little more than three school-bus-size pods linked together like sausages. Last Thursday, however, the space shuttle Endeavor blasted off with the station's latest--and most dramatic--component, a 240-ft.-long set of solar wings that will gather light from the sun and provide juice to the energy-hungry hardware onboard...