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...over again," he says, "we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success, being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day." If he learned in Texas that even failure can yield benefits, he learned in Iraq that even success comes at a cost...
...SCIENCE SPACE: The Genesis spacecraft may yield cosmic treasure...
...Regardless of who wins, the UFJ merger and Daiei restructuring are being hailed as progress for the Japanese economy. Even if the creation of the world's biggest bank proves as impractical and unprofitable as megamergers often turn out to be, it's likely to yield some fortuitous by-products: the disappearance of both Japan's worst basket-case bank and its most notorious corporate zombie. It also sets a strong precedent for increasingly open, shareholder-oriented corporate takeovers. By deviating so spectacularly from the Kabuki script that has governed corporate mergers for decades, the heads of Japan's largest...
...sent to the hospital where the girl's been taken. Media are not allowed inside, so he waits in the wintry darkness. All the newsdesk has is the name of the couple who doused the flames. A search of the phone book provides no clues, but electoral roll records yield an address for someone with the same surname and an unlisted number. It's miles away but near the park, so the reporter is rung again and sent there with a photographer. All they find are the wrong people, and a pack of dogs. After second deadline the reporter phones...
...funds, which returned an average 0.93% over the past year, about double what money-market funds did. If you have a chunk of cash you won't be tapping for a year or so--perhaps college-tuition bills are on your horizon--you might try a fund like SSgA Yield Plus, with a 30-day yield of 1.17%, or Fidelity Ultra-Short Bond, yielding 1.33%. Just remember: as rates rise, bond prices fall, offsetting some of that extra yield. And if you sell too soon, you might be hit with a redemption fee. Even among the cash happy, rising rates...