Investor's Business Daily articles from June 2001, page 8

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HAND-HELD COMPUTING Software Programs Make Palm Printing Easy.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)(COMPUTERS MADE PLAIN)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Nancy Gondo Palm hand-held computers are ideal for storing everything from addresses to spreadsheets. But sometimes a good old-fashioned printout is what you really need. After all, if you're sharing a file with several...

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Sunquest System Aims To Reduce Medical Errors.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Donna Howell Medical errors kill tens of thousands of people a year. Many die from drug reactions, although lab results foretell the medication problems. Despite best efforts, lab tests sometimes are overlooked or misfiled....

ESpeed Develops Electronic Marketplace For B2B Trading.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)(Q & A)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Murray Coleman Trading futures contracts via electronic exchanges is starting to seem less futuristic. Business-to-business e-commerce entrepreneurs say the concept is ready for the here and now. Companies like eSpeed Inc....

CLARK/BARDES CONSULTING /North Barrington, Illinois Benefits Firm Finds Compensation Can Pay Off.(THE NEW AMERICA)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Richard M. Rogers If you're happy with your pay and satisfied with your retirement benefits, raise your hand. For the rest of us, there's Clark/Bardes Consulting. The company helps design and administer employee benefits...

POWELL INDUSTRIES INC. /Houston, Texas A Powerful Sales Tool In An Unassuming Box.(THE NEW AMERICA)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Kirk Shinkle Lightning doesn't strike every time you turn on a light switch. But most people don't think much about how electricity is drawn from its source. It's a big concern for big industry, since keeping the power on...

STEVEN MADDEN LTD. /Long Island City, New York Designer Keeps Footing Despite Exec's Problems.(THE NEW AMERICA)
June 11, 2001... Byline: M. Susan Basas Steve Madden is stepping off the platform. The shoe designer who built a retail empire on his chunky, teen-oriented footwear pleaded guilty last month to securities fraud and money laundering. Madden,...

Trading In NYSE Halted, Hampered By Stubborn Bug.(A)
June 11, 2001... Byline: AP The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading for about an hour and a half early Friday due to computer problems that prevented trading in about half of its 3,500 stocks. Trading on the entire exchange was halted shortly...

FTC Speed Bump Slows Pepsi Deal For Quaker Oats.(A)
June 11, 2001... Byline: AP PepsiCo Inc.'s planned $14 billion purchase of Quaker Oats Co. has been delayed because of ongoing discussions with federal regulators about the deal, the company said Friday. PepsiCo, the No. 2 U.S. soft drink company,...

NYSE Stocks In The News.(A)
June 11, 2001... Byline: David Saito-Chung ResMed soared out of a nine-week base to a new high on May 2, then scored another new high on May 9. Since then it's been moving sideways, forming a four-week flat base. While it's now extended past its initial...

LINING UP AT THE TROUGH.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
June 11, 2001... Now that President Bush has signed his tax cut into law, it's time for Congress to pass a budget. Unfortunately, this won't include the necessary debate on the proper size of government. Like so many budget battles, it will focus on how...

HOLD ON THERE, MR. BLAIR.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
June 11, 2001... Tony Blair is painting his landslide win as a charge to take Britain into the European Union. Not so fast, Mr. Blair. You might have swamped the Tories. But you can't squeeze a mandate from the lowest voter turnout since World War I. ...

WHEN KILLING SAVES LIVES.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
June 11, 2001... Timothy McVeigh took a horrible human toll: 168 men, women and children killed, 500 injured, all innocent of anything other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. If a case could be made for the death penalty, this isit. The...

Let Bush Be Bush: He Should Push Missile Defense In Style Of Reagan.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(BRAIN TRUST)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Frank J. Gaffney Jr. Once upon a time, a President of the United States promised to protect his people, their forces overseas and friends against the threat of ballistic missile attack. After a while, he went to Europe to meet...

No Place For McVeigh In Tradition Of Honorable Government Dissent.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(PERSPECTIVE)
June 11, 2001... Byline: K.E. Grubbs Jr. So Timothy McVeigh, in front of a few of his victims' survivors and a closed-circuit TV camera, climbs onto what looks like a sleek Barcalounger. Or the latest design from the Relax-The-Back store. An...

KEY FUND HOLDINGS.(MAKING MONEY IN MUTUALS)
June 11, 2001... Key Fund Holdings / EBay was a top new buy of PBHG Technology & Communications Fund as of the latest reporting date. The stock has rebounded to18% below its 52-week high of 77.56, which it set on Sept. 20. Earnings grew 600%, 350% and 267% in...

Some Funds Hit Jackpot With Gaming Stocks Equipment maker IGT tops some money managers' favorites lists.(MAKING MONEY IN MUTUALS)(INVESTMENT TRENDS)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Ken Hoover Investors are rolling the dice on gaming stocks. And they're coming up sixesand eights. Makers of equipment, like slot machines, are doing a brisk business. Casinosare doing pretty well, too. And their stocks are...

AIM Mid Cap Hangs Tight Through All Markets Manager tries to find growth stocks before Wall Street does.(MAKING MONEY IN MUTUALS)(FUND PROFILE)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Nancy Gondo it doesn't aim to be. It doesn't try to chase all the winners or the losers, so it's not straight growth or value. Rather, think of it as a core fund that blends aspects of both. "Most of our ideas have...

Homes: The near-term outlook for home builders is murky, but demographics favor this consolidating industry.(B)(INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Kirk Shinkle When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates another half-point in mid-May, it should have been a big deal for home builders. Mortgage rates usually move lower when the Fed eases. But that hasn't happened. The...

Earnings Reports.(B)
June 11, 2001... Earnings Reports Qualstar Corp. Announces Third Quarter Earnings SIMI VALLEY, CA - Qualstar Corp. (Nasdaq:QBAK), a manufacturer of tape libraries, reported earnings and revenues for its fiscal third quarter and the nine months...

Save Time. Use IBD SmartSelectF Corporate Ratings.(B)
June 11, 2001... SmartSelect[R] Composite Rating - Combines all 5 SmartSelect[R] Ratings into oneeasy-to-use rating. More weight is placed on EPS and RS Ratings, and the stock's percent off its 52-week high is also included in the formula. Results are then...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Monika Tjia Investors dumped techs Friday. The Nasdaq composite dropped 48.90 points, or2%, to 2215.10 on lighter volume. For the week, the index gained 3%. Juniper Networks led techs down, sliding 8.61 to 38.02 as trade...

Where The Big Money's Flowing - NASDAQ.(B)
June 11, 2001... 4898A33.60Kos Pharma oKOSP35.602.10931732 9698A91.00Woodwrd Gv WGOV89.641.73443384 5898A31.30GenesisMicr oGNSS33.492.262,820302 5899A21.09Action Perf oACTN22.501.54948136 9899A26.75CantelMed CNTL27.600.91126130 ...

NASDAQ Stocks In The News.(B)
June 11, 2001... Byline: Monika Tjia After clearing a three-month base on March 26, Stericycle rose 22% before easing back. It's now working on the right side of an eight-week base, and sits9% off its high. The Lake Forest, Ill.-based waste...

Boost Your Portfolio Via Smart Entries, Exits.(A)(INVESTOR'S CORNER)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Jonah Keri When folks say "diversify," they often mean buy lots of stocks. Own five stocks? Buy 10. Own 10? Buy 20. With a slew of stocks, some are bound to go up and you'll never lose much money, they figure. Maybe. But...

Basic Controls: Cash-Flow Forecast Takes The Pulse Of Your Business.(A)(MANAGING THE SUCCESSFUL COMPANY)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Jed Graham With no sales coming in yet, income statements and other basic reports are pretty straightforward for Bellevue, Wash.-based Point of CareWare. It's mostly a matter of entering data. But those statements say little...

IBD'S TOP 10.(A)
June 8, 2001... Retail Sales Weaken Again As Energy Costs Take Bite 1Even value-oriented retailers fell victim to the slowing economy. May salesat chains like Target and Kohl's fell below views. Wal-Mart warned of pressureon margins. Apparel chains...

AFTER THE CLOSE.(TO THE POINT)
June 8, 2001... ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL will cut 1,000 jobs, or 2.5% of its staff. It expectsto earn 45 cents in this quarter vs. views of 82 cents. 3COM expects fourth-quarter sales to fall short of views by 17%, or $100 million. It will discontinue...

BUSINESS NEWS.(TO THE POINT)
June 8, 2001... INTERNET E-commerce stocks make move as dot-com survivors post profits Consumer Web businesses were written off as dead long ago, but IBD's E-Commerce group has quietly climbed to No. 17 out of 197 industries for six-month...

BUSINESS NEWS.(TO THE POINT)
June 8, 2001... ENERGY Oil rig count continues to climb in response to high crude prices Market forces seem to be at work to rebalance energy supply and demand. As crude and gasoline prices pick up, oil firms are ramping up drilling and output....

THE ECONOMY.(TO THE POINT)
June 8, 2001... Wholesale sales climbed in April, but inventories also increased Wholesale sales rose 0.3% from the previous month. Oil products and alcoholic beverages led the way. But the higher sales didn't move the piles of unwanted inventories...

TRENDS & INNOVATIONS.(TO THE POINT)
June 8, 2001... The costs of job-related injuries and illnesses in California are underestimated, equaling the costs of cancer and four to five times greater than AIDS costs, said University of California, Davis researchers. Two common variations in a...

TRENDS & INNOVATIONS.(TO THE POINT)
June 8, 2001... Global warming real, growing: report Global warming is real, and was particularly strong in the past 20 years, said the National Academy of Sciences in a report. A leading cause is emissionsof carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. The...

WASHINGTON.(TO THE POINT)
June 8, 2001... Senate Democrats set hearing on regulating Calif. power prices Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., the new chairman of a key oversight panel, moved quickly to turn a spotlight on soaring electricity prices in California. He scheduled a...

THE WORLD.(TO THE POINT)
June 8, 2001... Argentina's ex-president arrested on illegal arms sales charges Carlos Menem, the flamboyant former president who resurrected Argentina's economy a decade ago, was ordered held by a federal judge. The judge is probingaccusations the...

4. Learning Outside The Lines.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)(IBD'S 10 SECRETS TO SUCCESS)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Linda Stockman-Vines Jonathan Mooney is a dyslexic student who didn't learn to read until he was 12. David Cole is a student with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder who dropped out of high school when he was 15. Both...

Painter Albrecht Durer His Attention To Detail Made Him One Of The Greatest Artists Of His Era.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Kathryn Linderman Albrecht Durer knew that art was all about the details. It was details that made people look unique -- the set of the eyes, the curve of a cheek, the slope of a forehead. Capturing those details, he...

Guitar Innovator Les Paul Dedication Helped Him Scale Music's Heights.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Christopher L. Tyner Determined to land a New York gig for his desperate music trio in 1937, Les Paul went to the Broadway offices of well-known band leader Paul Whiteman full of hope. But the 22-year-old guitarist and his...

Wisdom To Live By . . .(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
June 8, 2001... ON LEARNING Supposing is good, but finding out is better. Mark Twain, writer It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden, basketball coach Education is the ability to listen to almost anything...

TECHBITS.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
June 8, 2001... Byline: James DeTar TV Screen Tech Could Cut Price Of HDTVs In Half A small Novato, Calif. company called SpatiaLight Inc. on Thursday unveiled a big manufacturing deal with Japan's Fuji Photo Optical Co. SpatiaLight makes...

TECH LEGISLATION Proposed Phone-Line Access Law Pits Data Vs. Voice.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Antonio A. Prado A plan before Congress to boost broadband buildout may have the unintended effect of quashing the nascent Internet telephony market, some analysts say. Critics of the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment...

TECH SLOWDOWN Intel, Rivals And SIA Saying Chips Down, But Rebound Looms.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
June 8, 2001... Byline: James DeTar Intel Corp. says it's holding its own in a tough market. In a midquarter update on Thursday, the world's largest chipmaker said things haven't improved,but they haven't gotten worse. The company said the second...

HOME NETWORKING Intel's Switch Turns Off Proxim Company plans to speed up its HomeRF standard after losing chipmaker ally.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Mike Angell Two and a half months ago, wireless equipment maker Proxim Inc. suffered a tough blow. Chipmaker Intel Corp. decided to use a different technology in future releases of its wireless home networking products,...

E-MAIL ADVERTISING Stop Spew Of Spam With Some Simple Steps.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)(COMPUTERS MADE PLAIN)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Paul Korzeniowski When Internet users open their e-mail boxes in the morning, many are greetedby a bunch of unsolicited ads. Such junk mail is known as spam. Recipients may wonder how online marketing nags got their...

TECH HOLDING COMPANY Investors Still Not Convinced Of Divine's Divinity.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Jed Graham The least you can say about Andrew "Flip" Filipowski: When he makes up his mind to do something, he goes all out. The chairman and chief executive of Chicago-based Divine inc., formerly known as Divine...

WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY IBM Looks To Back Up Wireless Vision With New Gear, Software.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)(Q & A)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Doug Tsuruoka At an analyst meeting on May 10, IBM Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Lou Gerstner talked about wireless technology as Big Blue's next big opportunity. IBM soon followed up on Gerstner's words with some fresh...

GLAXOSMITHKLINE PLC /Middlesex, United Kingdom Drug-Making Giant Enters Weight-Loss Business.(THE NEW AMERICA)(NEW AMERICA REVISITED)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Gloria Lau -- Steve Watkins -- Robin M. Grugal British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (New America, Dec. 1) on Monday jumped into the $1 billion weight-loss and diet-drug business. GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest drug maker,...

SOLA INTERNATIONAL INC. /Menlo Park, California Hip, High-Tech Lenses Stir Visions Of Growth.(THE NEW AMERICA)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Gloria Lau The number of eyeballs needing eyeglasses hasn't changed much in recent years. So if you're a lens maker, the only way to make big money is to develop fancier eyeglasses and convince people to pay more for them....

MITCHELL ENERGY & DEVELOPMENT CORP. /The Woodlands, Texas A Plan To Coax Fuel Out Of "Stubborn' Wells.(THE NEW AMERICA)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Alan R. Elliott A century of drilling has tapped much of Texas' easy-to-reach oil. As patches turn more stubborn, producers are working harder to coax up the tough crude at a profit. One of the most persuasive has been...

NYSE Stocks In The News.(A)
June 8, 2001... Byline: David Saito-Chung Handleman broke out of a 1 1/2-year base Wednesday on heavy trade. On Thursday, it edged higher on double normal trade, closing 4.3% above its pivot point of 13.50. It's still in buying range. The stock's...

A CLIMATE OF HYSTERIA.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
June 8, 2001... President Bush is "seeking to convince America's allies that he takes globalwarming seriously," reports The Washington Post. So the press canings have worked: Bush now accepts the menace of global warming. Never mind that many scientists...

IN LINE FOR A GOOD THUMPING.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
June 8, 2001... Staggering though it may be, a Los Angeles jury has ordered Philip Morris Cos. to pay more than $3 billion in damages to a Marlboro smoker dying from cancer. This tells us the question of "What next?" will be answered soon. High-fat...

GOVERNMENT WINS THIS GAMBLE.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
June 8, 2001... South Carolina has become the latest state to pass a lottery. Lawmakers' thirst for more revenue in the Palmetto State trumped the many arguments against lotteries. And who will pay? Those least able to afford it. Lottery backers, as...

LETTERS.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)
June 8, 2001... Needed: Fairer Tax Policy Thanks for the fact-filled "Anti-Growth Tax Cut?" (Editorial, Monday). The factthat the average yearly tax cut of $122 billion will be smaller than the current estimated annual cost of $125 billion for filling...

Globalization: A Convenient Villain For Amnesty International Report?(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(PERSPECTIVE)
June 8, 2001... Byline: K.E. Grubbs Jr. Does Amnesty International suffer mission creep? How about philosophical confusion? And why take an iconoclastic swing at one of the world's most worthy organizations anyway? We'll get to Amnesty's new report...

Health, Financials Overcome Tough Month For Sector Funds.(FUNDS & PERSONAL FINANCE)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Dan Moreau Sector funds limped through May, losing 0.58%, while diversified stock fundswere up just 1%, Lipper Inc. reported. For the first five months of the year, sector funds are down 10.62%. Their diversified brethren...

REPEAT PERFORMANCE Stock Funds Notched 1% Gain In May, Led By Small-Cap Value Offerings.(FUNDS & PERSONAL FINANCE)(IBD'S MONTHLY REVIEW & OUTLOOK)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Ken Hoover Domestic stock funds posted modest gains in May, giving them a two-month winning streak. The gains didn't seem like much. But given the yearlong stock market slump, they've got to cheer investors. The average...

Wasatch's Larkins Lands Undervalued Small Caps.(FUNDS & PERSONAL FINANCE)(FUND MANAGER Q & A)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Paul Katzeff Now comes the hard part for $469 million Wasatch Small Cap Value Fund. In the market downturn that began in March 2000, this fund could find more and more of the temporarily undervalued stocks it seeks. But if...

Emerging Markets Pace International Funds.(FUNDS & PERSONAL FINANCE)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Claire Mencke Funds invested in emerging markets trounced those that focused on developed countries in May. And of the bright spots, China and Mexico glistened the most. The problem with developed-country funds? In general,...

Index Buying Dominates Vanguard's Top 25 Group's active managers like Procter & Gamble, Citigroup and Exxon.(FUNDS & PERSONAL FINANCE)(ALL IN THE FAMILY)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Peter McKenna Why did Vanguard Group fund managers spend an estimated $862 million in the fourth quarter to buy nearly 17 million shares of Citigroup? Because they had to. The family is the fund industry's leading...

KEY FUND HOLDINGS.(FUNDS & PERSONAL FINANCE)
June 8, 2001... Key Fund Holdings / Express Scripts was a top new buy at Vanguard Health Care Fund as of the latest reporting period. The stock has been basing since its Dec. 28 peak of 107. It dipped to as low as 69.69 in March before rebounding and now...

Estate Tax Revised, But Lingers In Limbo New tax law phases it out, but then brings it back to life in 2011.(FUNDS & PERSONAL FINANCE)(TAXES)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Stuart Weiss When George Bush campaigned for president, he promised to dump the estate tax. But even though he signed the tax bill into law on Thursday, the estate tax's future is as murky as ever. True, the tax has been...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Monika Tjia Techs pushed their way back into positive territory Thursday. The Nasdaq composite gained 46.27 points, or 2%, to 2264 on lighter volume. Planar Systems broke out of a four-month base, surging 2.36 to 27.19 as...

Where The Big Money's Flowing - NASDAQ.(B)
June 8, 2001... 4897A32.33Kos Pharma oKOSP33.503.43361288 6285C23.20MediaCom oMCCC19.962.41504201 7797B40.50FEI oFEIC42.103.501,234198 5498B34.65Skillsoft SKIL38.194.24278166 2290A43.25Digimrc oDMRC19.790.79321155 8897B38.51Wet Seal...

NASDAQ Stocks In The News.(B)
June 8, 2001... Byline: Monika Tjia From its Jan. 23 peak to mid-April, Mentor Graphics fell 49% within its base. It has since made its way back up, forming the right side of a 20-week base. It stands 14% off its high. The Wilsonville, Ore.-based...

Tightness In Base Helps Stock In Long Run.(A)(INVESTOR'S CORNER)
June 7, 2001... Byline: David Saito-Chung When the market is falling, some stocks simply tank. Others build a base, but many come out sloppy. The breakout then stalls or fails. Still others refuse to dive fast. They surrender by inches, not yards....

New Pricing Strategy Helps Quest, But Rivals Also Get A Little Relief.(A)(COMPANY IN THE NEWS)
June 7, 2001... Byline: Gloria Lau It's not often companies can thank a rival for giving them a boost. But that's what's happened in the lab testing business. Quest Diagnostics Inc., the nation's top lab testing firm, helped the entireindustry last...

IBD'S TOP 10.(A)
June 7, 2001... McVeigh's Appeal Denied; Date With Death Still Mon. 1U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch said no amount of information could change the fact that Timothy McVeigh was "the instrument of death and destruction." He refused a stay of...

AFTER THE CLOSE.(TO THE POINT)
June 7, 2001... UNITED AIRLINES' contract talks with its mechanics union collapsed without adeal. But both sides agreed to meet again on June 20. WELLS FARGO will post a second-quarter charge of $1.13 billion for investment losses. BURLINGTON COAT...

BUSINESS NEWS.(TO THE POINT)
June 7, 2001... TECHNOLOGY Compaq warns of EU weakness; acquisitions should spur growth The world's No. 2 computer maker warned of consumer softness in Germany and the U.K. But it's still aggressively seeking acquisitions of services firms,...

BUSINESS NEWS.(TO THE POINT)
June 7, 2001... TRANSPORTATION American in talks to avert strike American Airlines and its flight attendants continued federally mediated talks to settle a contract dispute that may lead to a crippling strike just before the July 4 travel period....

BUSINESS NEWS.(TO THE POINT)
June 7, 2001... DIVERSIFIED GE to make offer; can EU refuse? CEO Jack Welch will soon present a new and final bid to win European Union OK for GE's $41 billion buy of Honeywell International, sources said. Facing a Tuesday deadline for offering...

THE ECONOMY.(TO THE POINT)
June 7, 2001... Remember risk of rising inflation when fixing slump: Fed's Meyer Federal Reserve Gov. Laurence Meyer, one of the inflation hawks on the Fed'spolicy board, warned of the perils of runaway interest-rate cuts. "We have to be concerned...

TRENDS & INNOVATIONS.(TO THE POINT)
June 7, 2001... Americans view AIDS as a top health problem, but fewer -- especially African-Americans -- worry about infection than they did three or five years ago, says the Kaiser Family Foundation. Inamed's surgically implanted stomach band for...

TRENDS & INNOVATIONS.(TO THE POINT)
June 7, 2001... Report: U.S. drug spending to double Prescription drug spending likely will double by 2006, Merck-Medco forecasts. The biggest U.S. drug management firm said just over half of the increase will come on rising spending for cardiovascular...

WASHINGTON.(TO THE POINT)
June 7, 2001... Justice study finds no racial bias in federal death penalty cases Janet Reno's Justice Department found lots of bias. John Ashcroft's doesn't find any. The latest review was based on nearly 900 death penalty cases, but follows a...

THE WORLD.(TO THE POINT)
June 7, 2001... U.S., Israel close to settler deal The deal would freeze construction at Jewish settlements on the West Bank and Gaza. The three key points, according to sources: no new settlements, no construction at existing ones and no expropriation...

3. Guidelines For Growth.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)(IBD'S 10 SECRETS TO SUCCESS)
June 7, 2001... Byline: Cord Cooper Predicting market demand, empowering managers and making them financially accountable are among the keys to success for new- and old-economy businesses alike, says Bob Davis, who turned a $2 million investment into a...

Poet Emily Dickinson Focus, Persistence And Determined Uniqueness Earned Her Literary Fame.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
June 7, 2001... Byline: Sarah Z. Sleeper In 1862, Emily Dickinson tried, and failed, to write a poem about a hummingbird. She decided that the final piece was awkward, and put it aside. Eighteen years later, she returned to the poem, editing the...

Blind Climber Erik Weihenmayer He Faced Down Fear To Reach The Top Of The World.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
June 7, 2001... Byline: Peter McKenna People who are afraid to fail become frozen in time. They are forever afraidto take risks, forever afraid to dare, forever afraid to succeed. Erik Weihenmayer is not one of those people. Weihenmayer's life has...

Wisdom To Live By . . .(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
June 7, 2001... ON NEGOTIATING When a concession is made voluntarily, it provides the greatest incentive for reciprocity. Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state ON POSITIVE THOUGHT One of the things I learned the hard way was it...

TECHBITS.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
June 7, 2001... Byline: Doug Tsuruoka Electric Avenue Alights On Information Highway Seventeen utilities in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions are quietly testing an online market on which they buy and sell excess power to each other. ...

GLOBAL TECH UNIVERSE Spying Good Value, U.S. Tech Firms Hire Ex-KGBers.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)(INFORMATION SOCIETY)
June 7, 2001... Byline: Sheila Riley Thank you, Karl Marx. Communism has produced some top-notch computer programmers, many now embracing U.S.-style capitalism here and in the former Soviet Union. No one seems to have exact numbers, but a fair...

TECH SLOWDOWN A "Historic' 2001: Sales Of PCs In U.S. Declining Vs. 2000.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
June 7, 2001... Byline: Patrick Seitz Pundits who thought the personal computer industry would rebound in the second half of the year are changing their tune. Tough times for PC sales likely will continue into 2002, they now say. Market tracker...

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Sprint PCS Leads Services Race It's No. 1 in wireless Web users as it upgrades for consumers and businesses.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
June 7, 2001... Byline: Reinhardt Krause Place your bets, providers of wireless phone services. You'll be spending billions of dollars to upgrade wireless networks over thenext few years. You're laying down those big bucks in hopes that revenue from...