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• 4TH QUARTER 2004 - CROSSROADS 01-01-2005

  For millions of years, the Mississippi River, the longest river in the world as measured from the source of its tributary, the Missouri, has flooded ...

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• 3RD QUARTER 2004 - SEA CHANGE 10-01-2004

  Joseph Rochefort had a perfectly uninspiring career. He enlisted in the navy in 1918, earned an rn ensigns commission, and was known principally as a ...

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• 2ND QUARTER 2004 - FRACTALS 07-01-2004

  Euclid was undoubtedly the greatest mathematician in history. His mathematical formulae and proofs define all the familiar shapes in one-, two- and ...

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• 1ST QUARTER 2004 - TRUST ME 04-01-2004

  Versailles is certainly a splendid monument to the glory of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Pictures cannot rn capture the magnitude of its magnificence, the ...

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• 4TH QUARTER 2002 - TACK OR JIBE 01-01-2004

  Prince Albert, Queen Victorias consort, thought it a splendid idea to organize a Great Exhibition as a showcase of Englands power and glory. The ...

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• 4TH QUARTER 2003 - LIFTOFF 01-01-2004

  In the spring of 1929, in the ancient Prussian city of Posen, a 17-year old boy stepped into the towns only movie theater to see the latest film by ...

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• 3RD QUARTER 2003 - BALANCE OR POWER 10-01-2003

  Dear Sirs: I have been interested in the problem of mechanical and human flight ever since as a boy I constructed a number of bats of various sizes.[I ...

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• 2ND QUARTER 2003 - CUBISM 07-01-2003

  In a small town near MÃlaga, Spain in 1884, a three-year old boy began scribbling. These werernlines and shapes and spirals, and no one, even his ...

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• 1ST QUARTER 2003 - BUTTERFLIES AND BEES 04-01-2003

  Sonny Liston was not just the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world in 1964; he was the most feared fighter, possibly of all time, with an ...

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• 3RD QUARTER 2002 - SIREN SONG 10-01-2002

  Homer gave Odysseus all the qualities of a classic hero: guile, coolness, strength, determination, and a healthy dose of bad luck. We meet Odysseus ...

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• 2ND QUARTER 2002 - THE FIFTH SUN 07-01-2002

  During renovation work in 1790 at El ZÃcalo, Mexico Citys central plaza, this amazing artifact, the Aztec Calendar Stone - three feet thick, 12 ...

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• 1ST QUARTER 2002 - RELATIVITY 04-01-2002

  The accompanying photograph is of a non-descript, undistinguished, 26-year old clerk in the Patent Office in Bern Switzerland who, in 1905, submitted ...

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• 1ST QUARTER 2002 - RELATIVITY 04-01-2002

  The accompanying photograph is of a non-descript, undistinguished, 26-year old clerk in the Patent Office in Bern Switzerland who, in 1905, submitted ...

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• 4TH QUARTER 2001 - ODE TO JOY 01-01-2002

  Beethovens ninth, and final, symphony premiered in Vienna on 7 May 1824 with the composer himself presiding over the orchestra. Beethoven had no idea ...

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• 3RD QUARTER 2001 - FREEDOM 10-01-2001

  September. On the 17th of that month in 1862, 23,000 Americans were killed or wounded near a little town in Maryland on the banks of the Potomac River ...

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• 2ND QUARTER 2001 - KEEPING THE TOP DOWN 07-01-2001

  Summer means morning fog along the California coast. It usually burns off by afternoon, but not always. No matter; the top of my convertible is always ...

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• 1ST QUARTER 2001 - TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS... & TIPS 04-01-2001

  Unless your portfolio has been stuffed with Treasury bonds, you are suffering through the worst period of portfolio returns in a generation. You ...

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